A prominent BJP MP has demanded the conferring of Bharat Ratna to the Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The member of Indian ruling party further said that China should free Tibet. Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian honour of the Government of India and a growing for the honour to the spiritual leader is growing.
India’s Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament from Kangra MP Kishan Kapoor urged the Centre to confer the country’s highest civilian order Bharat Ratna on the Dalai Lama and called for the freedom of Tibet from China.
“The Bharat Ratna will be the best gift from the Union government to the Dalai Lama on his 85th birthday,” said Kapoor while congratulating the Tibetan spiritual leader on the occasion in Dharamshala earlier this week. “It is a matter of great fortune for the people of the state, especially the people of my constituency, that the Dalai Lama, after the exile from Tibet, settled in McLeodganj,” he added.
The Indian law maker while calling China’s annexation of Tibet very unfortunate, he extended his support for a complete independence of Tibet. He called on China to hand over Tibet back to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibetans. He said China is habitual of seizing neighbouring territories that is why it is laying claim to Russia’s Vladivostok region even after signing a treaty with it nearly 150 years ago.
200 Members of Parliament across party lines from India has filed a signed petition to the government of India to confer the Bharat Ratna award to exiled Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Parliamentary Forum for Tibet has taken the petition to Home Minister Rajnath Singh last year.
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