"Today is a historic day for NorthEast. In 1990, Minister of Railways George Fernandes talked about Railways for Manipur. Thereafter, the Congress regime didn't do anything. Now, Narendra Modi ji has changed the railway landscape in the North-East," Rijiju said.
Noted Hindustani classical singer Chhannulal Mishra is the fourth recipient of the Padma Vibhushan award, the second-highest civilian honour after Bharat Ratna.
Noor, who heads the Awami Insaf Morcha (AIM), was in the news in 2014 when he pledged to contest that Lok Sabha election against BJP's then Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from Varanasi. But his nomination papers were rejected. He was so much in demand that Paswan and Lalu Prasad would invariably find a seat for him on their campaign helicopters, even if it meant dropping a senior party leader.
When he was appointed defence minister there were apprehensions that he would be at constant loggerheads with the strait-laced convention-bound military establishment.
The NDA veteran had earlier expressed his desire to be cremated but later said he wanted to be buried.
George Fernandes was India’s defence minister in the NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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