New Delhi, March 9 BJP MP Govindbhai Laljibhai Dholakia urged the government on Monday to confer the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour, posthumously on the renowned industrialist and philanthropist, Ratan Naval Tata.
Raising this demand in the Rajya Sabha, the BJP MP stated that awarding the Bharat Ratna to Ratan Tata would not only be about the individual, but also about his spirit of prioritizing the nation.
Ratan Tata, the former chairman of the Tata Group, who transformed a traditional group into India's largest and most influential conglomerate through a series of successful deals, died in October 2024 at the age of 86.
Educated at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, the veteran industrialist worked in the manufacturing sector of the family-run group after returning to India in 1962.
He gained experience in several Tata Group firms before being appointed as a director in charge of one of them, the National Radio and Electronics Co., in 1971.
He became the chairman of Tata Industries a decade later, and in 1991, he took over as the chairman of the Tata Group from his uncle, Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (JRD), who had been in charge for more than half a century.