MHA recommends hockey legend Dhyan Chand's name for Bharat Ratna

New Delhi: India’s Sports Ministry has recommended hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand’s name for Bharat Ratna.

Union Home Ministry has sent the recommendations for Bharat Ratna for late Dhyan Chand to Prime Ministers Office after the Ministry of State for Home Affairs received recommendations to award Bharat Ratna to the hockey legend a range of quarters. This was informed to Lok Sabha by MHA minister Kiren Rijiju.

Earlier, with speculation swirling that former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose may be named for Bharat Ratna, there was a clamour on Sunday for Dhyan Chand, Kanshi Ram and Bhagat Singh to be also considered for the country's highest civilian award.

Congress said that more eminent personalities should figure in the Bharat Ratna list if government was going by the “historical route”.