On this Republic Day, the legends of the country were receiving the Padma awards. Among all, Sri Sri, Ramdev, Advani and the Big B, Amitab Bachchan were also nominated in the list as the final holders will be announced on Jan 25th.
The nominees for the Padma Bushan title have been listed to award it on this Republic Day. According to the intelligence clearance, the list is confirmed to be final with 136 of count while before that the original use to have 148. On Jan 25th they tend to release the final names for the award. Here is the list of the nominees that are selected for the award.
To have the Second highest civilian award,
- Padma Vibhushan BJP veteran LK Advani
- Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal
- Dilip Kumar
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Rajinikanth will be hooked.
To Padma Bhushan Award, Baba Ramdev, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, scriptwriter Salim Khan (father of actor Salman), actor Pran posthumously, media celebrity Rajat Sharma, Swapan Dasgupta, Hari Shankar Vyas ex-chief election commissioner Gopalaswami, Agriculture economist Ashok Gulati, senior lawyers of Supreme Court Harish Salve, K K Venugopal and constitutional expert Subhash Kashyap, wrestler Sushil Kumar, Economist Bibek Debroy, scientists from ISRO, S Arunan of MOM.
S K Shivkumar of Chandrayaan, Businessman Shiv Nadar (HCL), Cipla’s Y K Hamid and T V Mohandas Pai Girija Devi (Hindustani vocalist), L Subramaniam (musician) were also trayed.
To attain the most precious Padma Sri Award, lyricist Prasoon Joshi, hockey captain Sardara Singh, badminton player P V Sindhu, chess grandmaster Sasikiran Krishnan, Arunima Sinha, the first women amputee climbed Mount Everest. A Kanyakumari who is Carnatic violinist, Malini Awasthi who is folk singer, Smriti Biswas (an actor), Sudha Raghunathan who is Carnatic vocalist, Molai Peyang who is tribal environmentalist, Neil Herbert Nonkynrih of the famous Shillong Choir, Manoj Das who is Oriya writer are among others in the list.