Akhilesh receives ‘Padma Vibhushan’ for his late father Mulayam Singh Yadav

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Veteran socialist leader and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister the late Mulayam Singh Yadav, and medical professional Dilip Mahalanabis, known globally for his work on Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), were among those conferred the Padma Vibhushan award by President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday.

Author and philanthropist Sudha Murty, physicist Deepak Dhar, who is known for his long-standing research career in statistical physics, novelist S L Bhyrappa and Vedic scholar Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji were given the Padma Bhushan at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.

Yadav, who was also India’s defence minister and long-time parliamentarian, and Mahalanabis, who returned from the US to serve in the 1971 Bangladesh war refugee camps, were given the honour posthumously.

Yadav’s son, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, received the award on his behalf, while Mahalanabis’s award was received by his nephew. Music director M M Keeravaani, who bagged India’s first Oscar for an original song for the RRR song ‘Naatu Naatu’ and Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon were among those who received the Padma Shri.