Former Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav was on Wednesday conferred the Padma Vibhushan posthumously by President Droupadi Murmu and the award was received by his son Akhilesh Yadav, a former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister.
The award was conferred at the Padma Awards ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Mulayam Singh Yadav, a former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, had founded the Samajwadi Party.
Mulayam Singh Yadav’s name featured in this year’s Padma Awards announced by the government on the eve of Republic Day. Padma Vibhushan is the second-highest civilian honour in the country. Medical professional Dilip Mahalanabis, known globally for his work on Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS), were among those conferred the Padma Vibhushan award. 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 here.
