Kolkata: Former Bengal Head of the Minister of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has rejected Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award of India, announced by the Government of Narendra Modi on Tuesday.
“I don’t know the Padma Bhushan Award given to me.
Nothing communicates it to me.
If I was chosen for award, I reject it,” said the former CM who was sick in a written statement at night.
Sitaram Yechury Politburo CPM member associated the same statement of words as Bhattacharjee and shared it on his official Twitter handle.
Bhattacharjee served as the State Minister from 2000 to 2011, occupying a post after CM who served the longest, Jyoti Basu, resigned.
Losing assembly polls 2011 – After severe criticism of the handling of Single and Nandigram agitation – marking the end of the 34-year-old communist government and the resurrection of Mamata Banerjee.
Bhattacharjee, incidentally, was one of the Communist leaders who pushed CPM to be a re-assessment of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Communists have stopped the icon for its harmony with Japan in 1942.
Changes in the attitude began from 1989, when the Communist began the statue of Garlanding Netaji on his birth’s birthday, along with advanced blocks.
In 2003, during the birthday celebration of 105 icons, Bhattacharjee openly admitted that their old assessment of the leader was wrong.
According to the source, the former wife of CM, Meera, received a telephone call from the center around 2:00 p.m.
about honor.
He broke the news to him, who reportedly smiled.
But when MHA announced the Padma list, Bhattacharjee told him that he would not accept with personal reasons.
MHA’s sources told Tii that K secretary K Bhalla had called Meera in the morning to tell her about Padma Bhushan.
But Bhalla couldn’t talk to Bhattacharjee directly because he was told that CPM veterans were not healthy.
According to the source of the party, the Secretary of State CPM Surjya Kanta Mishra contacted Bhattacharjees, and left it to the former CM to receive the last telephone.
People in CPM felt Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had committed rights by rejecting the appreciation because Marxists did not tend to receive appreciation for public services.
The party then echoed this sentiment through Tweet: “com.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya nominated for Padma Bhushan Award has refused to accept it.
The CPI (M) policy has been consistent in the decline in the award from the country.
Our work is for people not for awards.
Com EMS, who previously offered awards had refused.
“The RAO government has proposed Padma Vibhushan for Kerala EX-CM EMS Namboodiripad, which he rejected.
Bengal ex-cm Jyoti Basu rejects Ratna Bharat from the Government of UPA I.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee refused the Padma Bhushan award
