But , why to lobby ?? He deserves the seat without any recos.
Confer Bharat Ratna on Dr Hazarika
By A Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, Sept 24 — After projecting Dr Bhupen Hazarika as a candidate for Rajya Sabha seat from the State, the regional Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has started lobbying for conferment of Bharat Ratna on the cultural icon from the region. In a letter to the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, the AGP mentioned that, “The multi faceted genius in Dr Bhupen Hazarika who is fondly referred as Bhupen da, merits for conferment of Bharat Ranta, the highest honour for a civilian in the country, by virtue of his achievement in different fields in the cultural arena.”
The AGP letter signed by Dilip Kumar Saikia, the Secretary of the party’s legislature wing, further states, “Dr Hazarika’s contribution towards promoting cultural heritage of the country is highly significant. He has been a successful cultural ambassador of the country in
different international cultural festivals.”
The AGP’s letter to the Prime Minister is accompanied by a copy of life sketch of Dr Hazarika underlining his achievements in the field of music, cinema, literature. It may be mentioned that Assam Legislative Assembly in its last budget session unanimously resolved to request the Union Government to consider conferment of Bharat Ratna to Dr Hazarika, the winner of Dada Saheb Phalke Award and Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademy.
Earlier, the regional party had lended its support to send Dr Hazarika to Rajya Sabha from the State following NDA Government’s eleventh hour decision to drop his name from the list of presidential nominees to the Upper House. Although AGP has only 21 MLAs in the State Assembly, it outsmarted its opponent particularly the ruling Congress by pronouncing Dr Hazarika’s name first as a candidate to Rajya Sabha. With Dr Hazarika later taking a stand that he was
willing to go to Rajya Sabha as a consensus choice of all the political parties in the State, almost all the political parties including Congress are now in favour of sending him to the Upper House.
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