THE birth centenary of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao will be observed on June 28, 2021. The government of Narasimha Rao’s home state of Telangana has demanded that he be conferred the nation’s highest honour, Bharat Ratna, posthumously. It remains to be seen if Prime Minister Narendra Modi or President Ram Nath Kovind, whose prerogative it is to select a nominee for the Bharat Ratna, will now do the former prime minister that honour.
Given the fact that a Congress party-led government, that was in office for an entire decade after Narasimha Rao. . .