The Padma Award were conferred to 39 people yesterday among them few are Sharad Pawar, Murli Manohar Joshi and the late Lok Sabha Speaker P A Sangma, cricketer Virat Kohli and Bollywood singer Anuradha Paudwal.

The function held at a Rashtrapati Bhavan where Mr Joshi, Mr Pawar, Mr Sangma (posthumous) and former Chairman of ISRO Prof. Udipi Ramachandra Rao were conferred Padma Vibhushan by President Pranab Mukherjee.

The event was attended by Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, senior BJP leader L K Advani, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and other ministers.

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