Welcoming the Centre’s decision to confer nation’s highest civilian award of “Bharat Rathna” to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and educationist and freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malaviya, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today urged the Centre to bestow the same honour to former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao and former Chief Minister N T Rama Rao for their copious services to the society.
Speaking to the media here on Thursday, Naidu said the Centre has taken a wise decision to honor the two stalwarts in two divergent sectors -- one is politics and other in education. At the same time, he also urged the Centre to honor P V Narasimha Rao and NTR with Bharath Rathna as they served the nation in their own capacities.
He pointed out that P V Narasimha Rao introduced economic reforms that fetched us telecom and IT to doorsteps, while NTR known for introducing many welfare schemes for poor and deprived classes – like Rs 2 a kg rice, pucca houses for poor and subsidized power to farmers.
It is better to recognize NTR, who played a key role in forming Third Front at national level against Congress government and brought in revolutionary changes in politics, he added.
