Bharat Ratna is known as the country’s highest honour. This time, the Narendra Modi-led government has announced to give Bharat Ratna to former Bihar CM Karpuri Thakur, Lal Krishna Advani, Narasimha Rao, MS Swaminathan and Chaudhary Charan Singh.
Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of the country in the year 2014. In these 10 years, 10 people in his government have been honoured with the highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna. Manmohan Singh led the UPA government from 2004 to 2014. Only three people were awarded Bharat Ratna during the tenure of his government.
A total of 53 people have been awarded the Bharat Ratna so far, including Jannayak Karpuri Thakur, LK Advani, Choudhary Charan Singh, PV Narasimha Rao and MS Swaminathan. However, now Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief Mayawati has demanded to give Bharat Ratna to Kashiram as well. Along with this, Raj Thackeray has also demanded to give respect to Bala Saheb Thackeray. In such a situation, let us know who are the celebrities who have been awarded Bharat Ratna.
Bharat Ratna Award List (1954 – 2024)
| Year | Who got Bharat Ratna? |
| 1954 | C. Rajagopalachari |
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | |
| C. V. Raman | |
| 1955 | Bhagwan Das |
| Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya | |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | |
| 1957 | Govind Ballabh Pant |
| 1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve |
| 1961 | Bidhan Chandra Roy |
| Purushottam Das Tandon | |
| 1962 | Rajendra Prasad |
| 1963 | Zakir Husain |
| P.V. Kane | |
| 1966 | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
| 1971 | Indira Gandhi |
| 1975 | V.V. Giri |
| 1976 | K. Kamaraj |
| 1980 | Mother Teresa |
| 1983 | Vinoba Bhave |
| 1987 | Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan |
| 1988 | M.G. Ramachandran |
| 1990 | B.R. Ambedkar |
| Nelson Mandela | |
| 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | |
| Morarji Desai | |
| 1992 | Abul Kalam Azad |
| J.R.D. Tata | |
| Satyajit Ray | |
| 1997 | Gulzarilal Nanda |
| Aruna Asaf Ali | |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | |
| 1998 | M. S. Subbulakshmi |
| Chidambaram Subramaniam | |
| 1999 | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| Amartya Sen | |
| Gopinath Bordoloi | |
| Ravi Shankar | |
| 2001 | Lata Mangeshkar |
| Bismillah Khan | |
| 2009 | Bhimsen Joshi |
| 2014 | C.N.R. Rao |
| Sachin Tendulkar | |
| 2015 | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya |
| Atal Bihari Vajpayee | |
| 2019 | Pranab Mukherjee |
| Nanaji Deshmukh | |
| Bhupen Hazarika | |
| 2024 | Karpoori Thakur |
| Chaudhary Charan Singh | |
| P. V. Narasimha Rao | |
| Lal Krishna Advani | |
| M. S. Swaminathan |
FAQs
Question: What is available in Bharat Ratna?
Answer: A certificate and a medal.
Question: Who was the first woman to receive Bharat Ratna?
Answer: Indira Gandhi.
Question: What is Bharat Ratna?
Answer: Bharat Ratna is the country’s highest civilian honour.
Question: When was Bharat Ratna started?
Answer: Bharat Ratna Award was started on 2 January 1954 by the then President Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
Question: How many Indian women have received Bharat Ratna so far?
Answer: 5 women.
Question: Who was the first Indian to receive Bharat Ratna posthumously?
Answer: Lal Bahadur Shastri.
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