A total of 12 people from AP and Telangana were selected for Padma awards. Seven people from AP and five from Telangana received Padma awards. In the spiritual category, prominent spiritualists from Telangana Chinajiyar Swamy and Kamlesh D. Patel were selected for the Padma Bhushan award. Kamlesh D. Patel from Gujarat is managing Ramachandra Mission in Hyderabad. From Telangana, prominent doctor Kumalleti Hanmantha Rao, scientist Modadugu Vijay Gupta and linguist B. Ramakrishna Reddy have been selected for the Padsha Shri awards.
Renowned music director MM Keeravani won the Padma Shri in Andhra Pradesh Kota. Prominent technical engineers Ganesh Nagappa Krishnarajanagara, Abbareddy Nageswara Rao, famous Harikatha scholar Kota Satchidananda Sastri from Guntur, educationist Prakash Chandrasud, puppet artist CV Raju from Atikoppaka, and eminent sociologist Sankuratri Chandrasekhar have been selected for the Padma Shri awards from AP.
Padma Vibhushan to Mulayam..
Last year, the Center announced the Padma Vibhushan award to the late former UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav posthumously. Former CM of Karnataka SM Krishna, late Vastu Shastraveta Balakrishna Joshi, Digamvata Vaidyadu Dilap Mahalabis who invented ORS, Tabla player Zakir Hussain and Mathematician Srinivas Vardhan were awarded Padma Vibhushan.
Renowned litterateur Bairappa, industrialist Kumara Mangalam Birla, singer Vanejayaram, eminent sociologist Sudhamurthy, renowned linguist Kapil Kapoor, singer Vanejayaram and singer Suman Kalyanpur have been awarded Padma Bhushan.
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