Ex-Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee rejects Padma Bhushan award
Kolkata Jan 25 PTI Veteran CPIM leader and former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday rejected the Padma Bhushan award I know nothing about this award No one has told me anything about it If they have decided to offer Padma Bhushan to me I refuse to accept it he said in a statementAccording to CPIM sources it was a decision of Bhattacharjee and also the partyFormer Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Hindutva poster boy late Kalyan Singh and Indias first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat who died in a helicopter crash recently were awarded Padma Vibhushan on Tuesday while veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and CPIM leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee were conferred with Padma Bhushan PTI PNT NN NN
Kolkata Jan 25 PTI Veteran CPIM leader and former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday rejected the Padma Bhushan award I know nothing about this award No one has told me anything about it If they have decided to offer Padma Bhushan to me I refuse to accept it he said in a statementAccording to CPIM sources it was a decision of Bhattacharjee and also the partyFormer Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Hindutva poster boy late Kalyan Singh and Indias first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat who died in a helicopter crash recently were awarded Padma Vibhushan on Tuesday while veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and CPIM leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee were conferred with Padma Bhushan PTI PNT NN NN
