<p>Veteran CPI(M) leader and former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday rejected the Padma Bhushan award.</p>
<p>"I don't know anything about the Padma Bhushan award. Nobody told me about it. If I was given the Padma Bhushan award, I am rejecting it," he said in a statement.</p>
<p>According to CPI(M) sources, it was a decision of Bhattacharjee and also the party.</p>
<p>Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Hindutva poster boy late Kalyan Singh and India's first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat who died in a helicopter crash recently, were awarded Padma Vibhushan on Tuesday, while veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and CPI(M) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee were conferred with Padma Bhushan.</p>
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I don`t know anything about the Padma Bhushan award. Nobody told me about it. If I was given the Padma Bhushan award, I am rejecting it, he said in a statement

Ex-West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee rejects Padma Bhushan award, says nobody told him

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I don't know anything about the Padma Bhushan award. Nobody told me about it. If I was given the Padma Bhushan award, I am rejecting it, he said in a statement

Ex-West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee rejects Padma Bhushan award

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