GUWAHATI: Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said that the government has chosen Bhupen Hazarika and ignored Shivakumara Swami, a spiritual leader who recently passed away.
Kharge said that the government had seen Swami’s works and rather chose to award a singer and a “man who propagated their RSS ideology”-Nanaji Deshmukh.
Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress: Govt had seen his work. Even then the BJP govt didn't give him the award. This is sad. A singer and a man who propagates their RSS ideology have also been awarded. If you compare all of them, then Shivakumara Swami ji should have been given the award https://t.co/wU69JMLjH6
— ANI (@ANI) January 26, 2019
“If you compare all of them, then Shivakumara Swami ji should have been given the award,” Kharge was quoted as saying by ANI.