President Droupadi Murmu conferred the Padma awards on several notable individuals in a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday, 5 April.
Veteran politician and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav was awarded the Padma Vibhushan posthumously. Author and philanthropist Sudha Murthy, physicist Deepak Dhar, novelist S L Bhyrappa, and Vedic scholar Tridandi Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji were honoured with Padma Bhushan awards.
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