{"id":3806,"date":"2018-08-28T03:43:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T03:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2018-08-28T03:43:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T03:43:55","slug":"subramanian-swamy-proposes-giving-mr-top-indian-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/subramanian-swamy-proposes-giving-mr-top-indian-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Subramanian Swamy proposes giving MR top Indian award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">India\u2019s ruling party politician Subramanian Swamy has proposed giving former President Mahinda Rajapaksa India\u2019s top civilian award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Swamy tweeted saying Rajapaksa should be given the Bharat Ratna award for dfeating the LTTE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201c\u2026just as we have awarded Bharat Ratna to Mandela for freeing his people we should award MR for freeing his people and Bharatiyas from LTTE terror,\u201d Subramanian Swamy tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Subramanian Swamy was in Sri Lanka recently where he met Rajapaksa to invite him to attend an event in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Bharat Ratna, which was instituted in 1954 by the government of India, is the country\u2019s highest and most prestigious civilian award and ranks seventh in the order of precedence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The award is given \u201cin recognition of exceptional service\/performance of the highest order\u201d. It is a merit-based award and is presented to the winners without any distinction of position, race, sex, or occupation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Prior to 2011, the award was only given for achievements in the fields of science, arts, literature, and public services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">However, in December 2011, achievements in \u201cany field of human endeavour\u201d was also included thereby expanding the criteria of the awards. Every year, a maximum of three awards are presented. The Bharat Ratna awards are given by the President of India; however, the recommendations are made by the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s ruling party politician Subramanian Swamy has proposed giving former President Mahinda Rajapaksa India\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}