Bhupen Hazarika's son: It will be a great honor to receive "Bharat Ratna" on behalf of my father | India News

NEW YORK: Tej Hazarika, son of the famous singer-songwriter Bhupen Hazarika, was invited by the Indian government to accept Bharat Ratna on behalf of his father and will be his "great honor" to receive the highest civilian honor of the country.

"The Government of India kindly invited me to accept Bharat Ratna for my father.He sacrificed a great deal and devoted himself selflessly to the cause of an India united and progressive and is now recognized for it with this deserved merit, "Tej Hazarika said in a statement released in New York.

He stated that the Indian government was "a great honor for me and my family to be invited" to accept the Bharat Ratna on behalf of his late father.

"It will be my dreamlike privilege to receive it for my father, his followers, and his followers, and as always, I will strive to follow in my father's footsteps to bring light where it is dark" Tez said in a statement. Hazarika as said.

Tej Hazarika said about the controversy he had made on February 11 on Facebook in a Facebook post: "It is unfortunate that some people misconstrue my February 11 public statement regarding Bharat Ratna in unfortunately distorting my point of view.

In the Facebook article, he had stated that his father's name and words were invoked and publicly celebrated while he was preparing to pbad a bill "painfully unpopular" on the (modifying) citizenship which "actually undermines its documented position, in fact to be in direct opposition to what Bupenda believed in his heart-heart".

The NDA government led by the BJP introduced the bill granting Indian citizenship to religious minorities in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It sparked mbad protests in the north-east of the country, with many organizations and parties saying it would have a negative impact on the region's demographics.

Tej Hazarika said: "Although I have lived abroad almost all my life, my Indian roots have always been strong, because not only were I born in India (as was my mother , my father and their parents), in India.

"Through my education and through enlightened reflection, I have always had the greatest respect for the Indian Republic, its great diversity and its noble institution of recognizing its outstanding personalities from all walks of life with civilian rewards – the highest of them being the Bharat Ratna, recently announced to my father, the late Dr. Bhupen Hazarika. "