Congress MLC Veena Achaya’s letter to President Ram Nath Kovind has been sent to the Field Marshal KM Cariappa and General KS Thimayya for the Prime Minister’s Office for the country’s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna.
Rashtrapati Bhavan has acknowledged receipt of Ms. Acharya’s letter dated February 6, 2021, which relates the President to posthumously awarding Bharat Ratna to both Field Marshal Kariyappa and General Thumpaiah. On March 2, 2021, Officer on Special Duty, President’s Secretariat, Jagannath Srinivasan wrote to Ms. Achaia, demanding to be brought to her notice that the letter she had sent to the President was forwarded to the Prime Minister’s Office for appropriate action. went.
The demand to award Bharat Ratna to Field Marshal Kariyappa and General Thimayya, both from Kodagu district, is long pending before the Center. Even former Army Chief Bipin Rawat supported the demand to award Bharat Ratna to Field Marshal Kariappa. While Cariappa was the first Indian commander of the Indian Army, General Thimyya served as the Chief of Army Staff from 1957 to 1961.
While Mr. Kovind went to Madikeri to inaugurate the General Thimyya Memorial Museum last month, Ms. Achaiah submitted a memorandum stating that General Thimayya was the only Indian to command an infantry contingent in combat during World War II, while Belonged to Mr. Cariappa. A family of farmers and one of only two Indian Army officers holding the highest and five-star rank of Field Marshal.
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