Former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao was posthumously awarded the _____ in 2024.
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P.V. Narasimha Rao:
The Government of India will posthumously confer India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, on former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao in 2024.
Father of Economic Reforms: He is credited with initiating the Liberalization, Privatization, and Globalization (LPG) reforms in India in 1991. At that time, India was going through a severe economic crisis.
He was known as the "Chanakya of Modern India." He was not only a skilled politician but also an eminent scholar who could speak more than 17 languages.
Foreign Policy: He laid the foundation for India's "Look East Policy," which gave a new direction to India's relations with Southeast Asian countries.