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C. Subramaniam awarded the Bharat Ratna

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C. Subramaniam awarded the Bharat Ratna
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Former Union minister C. Subramaniam, a Congress leader from Tamil Nadu who ushered in the Green Revolution, was awarded the Bharat Ratna.

Chidambaram Subramaniam, a Congress leader and independence activist from Tamil Nadu who studied at the University of Madras, was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1998. As Union Minister for Food and Agriculture in the 1960s he ushered in the Green Revolution, working with M. S. Swaminathan, B. Sivaraman and Norman Borlaug. He also served as Union Minister of Finance and of Defence, and as Governor of Maharashtra from 1990 to 1993. He died in 2000.

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