RTI Query on Savarkar Fails to Elicit Straight Answer

MUMBAI: The President of India's Secretariat has no information on the nominations or recommendations made by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) for the conferment of the country's highest civilian award, the 'Bharat Ratna', for the past 23 years, according to a reply by it in response to a RTI query. The RTI query was initiated by Pune businessman Prafful Sarda seeking the list of the eminent persons recommended for the Bharat Ratna by all the Prime Ministers from 2000-2023.

He also sought additional details on the communication or recommendations by the successive PMs, for conferring the Bharat Ratna posthumously on the revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar aka Swatantryaveer Savarkar. "The President's Secretariat replied on May 22 that "no such information is available", and they even transferred my application to the PMO which is the nodal department and custodian of the records in the matter," said Sarda. IANS

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