Multiple choice general knowledge history

The award was given and later withdrawn to whom due to a legal technicality?

  1. Jawaharlal Nehru

  2. Rajendra Prasad

  3. Subhas Chandra Bose

  4. Bhimsen Joshi
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Explanation

Subhas Chandra Bose was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1992, but the award was later withdrawn due to legal technicalities regarding posthumous awards. This is the only instance of a Bharat Ratna being withdrawn. The controversy arose because there was no clear provision for posthumous awards at the time, and questions about Bose's death in 1945 complicated matters.

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