Famous singer and cultural icon Bhupen Hazarika’s son Tej Hazarika has said that he will not be accepting the Bharat Ratna on behalf of his late father. He took this decision a day before the Citizenship Amendment Bill was to be put forward in the Rajya Sabha.
Tej Hazarika also added that his father would “never have endorsed what appears, quite transparently, to be an underhanded way of pushing a law against the will and benefit of the majority .”