Subramanian Swamy demands Bharat Ratna for Ashok Singhal
November 16, 2016
New Delhi: BJP MP Subramanian Swamy today favoured conferring of Bharat Ratna award on former VHP leader Ashok Singhal posthumously.
In a statement, Swamy said Singhal was the architect of the Ram Janambhoomi movement and made sacrifices for social transformation.
Singhal, who had risen to prominence playing a leading role in the Ram temple issue in the late eighties, died in November last year.
PTI
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