New Delhi: JD(U) MP and Karpoori Thakur’s son Ram Nath Thakur wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, thanking him for the Bharat Ratna honour bestowed on his father and former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur.
“The nation’s extraordinarily backward courses — particularly the folks of Bihar — will at all times be grateful to the federal government. Karpoori Thakur fought all his life for the rights and respect of the poor, Dalits, backward sections and the disadvantaged,” he wrote to PM Modi.
JD(U) MP Ram Nath Thakur writes to PM Modi (@narendramodi), thanking him for the Bharat Ratna honour bestowed on his father and stalwart backward chief Karpoori Thakur. #KarpooriThakur #BharatRatna pic.twitter.com/L7zEhgjWKE
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Ram Nath Thakur expressed his gratitude for bestowing the nation’s highest civilian honour on the previous Bihar chief minister in his beginning centenary 12 months. The award was long-awaited and the federal government introduced it within the first month of the 12 months, the Rajya Sabha member famous.
Karpoori’S Son additionally wrote, “Socialists and followers of Mahatma Gandhi, Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia draw inspiration from Karpoori Thakur’s life”. He added that the “authorities’s resolution has ensured that he (Karpoori Thakur) shall be remembered as a Bharat Ratna.”
Karpoori Thakur, the primary non-Congress Chief Minister of Bihar, served within the state’s prime administerial publish from December 1970 to June 1971 and later from June 1977 to April 1979. Karpoori Thakur, who served as Bihar’s Chief Minister within the Seventies, performed a pivotal position within the implementation of quotas for backward courses within the state.
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Karpoori Thakur, also known as the “Jan Nayak” or the folks’s hero of Bihar politics, was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, the nation’s highest civilian honour.