"If I Have Been Awarded, I Refuse It" – Why Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Refuses Padma Bhushan

AGARTALA: The veteran CPI (M) leader and former chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee refused to accept the third-highest civilian award, Padma Bhushan Award 2022.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in a statement mentioned that he has no idea about the award as he knows nothing about it and nobody has told him anything about the award. He further says that if the government has taken the decision of offering the award to him then he refuses to accept it.

According to the sources from the Communist Party of India (CPI), the decision of not accepting the Padma award comes from Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and also from the party members.

The CPI in their Twitter handle wrote that Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee who was earlier nominated for the Padma Bhushan Award has decided to not accept the award. The party states that the policies of CPI (M) always stand in support of declining such awards from the government.

The CPI also added that their work is meant for the welfare of the people and not for the sake of such awards. The party in the tweet wrote that former Kerala Chief Minister and Indian communist politician Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad (EMS) was also offered an award but he refused to accept and declined it.

On Tuesday 25 January the Ministry of Home Affairs announced the list of Padma Awards for the current year. It has shared the complete list of people selected for the Padma Awards 2022 for their contribution in various fields.

As many as 128 eminent personalities have been chosen who will be receiving the Padma Awards from the government of India among which 107 personalities will be honoured with Padma Shree, 17 will be the recipient of Padma Bhushan and four persons are selected for Padma Vibhushan.

The list of Padma Awards consists of 13 posthumous awardees and 10 personalities are selected in the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI. Notably, among all the 128 Padma awardees, 34 selected are women recipients.

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