Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Monday said that the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and first female PM Indira Gandhi gave the highest civilian award of the Bharat Ratna to themselves.
“This is the history of Bharat Ratna that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru-ji got himself recommended and got the Bharat Ratna while he was still alive. Indira Gandhi-ji too got herself recommended [for the Bharat Ratna] in 1971. It is the honourable PM [Narendra Modi] who is finding eligible people and giving them Bharat Ratna,” Mr. Yadav, responding to Congress MLA and the Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly Umang Singhar’s remarks.
Mr. Yadav was speaking during the motion of thanks to Governor Mangubhai Patel’s address in the State Legislative Assembly.
