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class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harbhajan_Singh" title="Harbhajan Singh">Harbhajan Singh</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Punjab,_India" title="Punjab, India">Punjab</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament,_Lok_Sabha" title="Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha">Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />2004–2009</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Simranjit_Singh_Mann" title="Simranjit Singh Mann">Simranjit Singh Mann</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vijay_Inder_Singla" title="Vijay Inder Singla">Vijay Inder Singla</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sangrur" title="Sangrur">Sangrur</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1936-04-09</span>) </span>9 April 1936<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 88)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Sangrur" title="Sangrur">Sangrur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Punjab_(British_India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Punjab (British India)">Punjab</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_India" class="mw-redirect" title="British India">British India</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shiromani_Akali_Dal" title="Shiromani Akali Dal">Shiromani Akali Dal</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Harjit Kaur</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">1 son and 2 daughters including <a href="/wiki/Parminder_Singh_Dhindsa" title="Parminder Singh Dhindsa">Parminder Singh Dhindsa</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Sangrur" title="Sangrur">Sangrur</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> (2019)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div>Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=4130">[1]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa</b> (born 9 April 1936) is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a>. He was the former President of <a href="/wiki/Shiromani_Akali_Dal_(Sanyukt)" title="Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt)">Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt)</a>, which was formed by the merger of <a href="/wiki/Shiromani_Akali_Dal_(Democratic)" title="Shiromani Akali Dal (Democratic)">Shiromani Akali Dal (Democratic)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shiromani_Akali_Dal_(Taksali)" title="Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali)">Shiromani Akali Dal (Taksali)</a> led by him and <a href="/wiki/Ranjit_Singh_Brahmpura" title="Ranjit Singh Brahmpura">Ranjit Singh Brahampura</a> respectively. He returned to the <a href="/wiki/Shiromani_Akali_Dal" title="Shiromani Akali Dal">Shiromani Akali Dal</a> political party by merging his party back into it in March 2024. He was previously a member of <a href="/wiki/14th_Lok_Sabha" title="14th Lok Sabha">14th Lok Sabha</a> of <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, representing the <a href="/wiki/Sangrur_(Lok_Sabha_constituency)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sangrur (Lok Sabha constituency)">Sangrur</a> constituency of <a href="/wiki/Punjab_(India)" class="mw-redirect" title="Punjab (India)">Punjab</a>. He has been awarded the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> in the awards list of 26 January 2019. However, he returned it in December 2020 during the farmer protests. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_President,_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Bhushan_Award_to_Shri_Sukhdev_Singh_Dhindsa,_at_the_Civil_Investiture_Cerem.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/The_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Bhushan_Award_to_Shri_Sukhdev_Singh_Dhindsa%2C_at_the_Civil_Investiture_Cerem.jpg/220px-The_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Bhushan_Award_to_Shri_Sukhdev_Singh_Dhindsa%2C_at_the_Civil_Investiture_Cerem.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/The_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Bhushan_Award_to_Shri_Sukhdev_Singh_Dhindsa%2C_at_the_Civil_Investiture_Cerem.jpg/330px-The_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Bhushan_Award_to_Shri_Sukhdev_Singh_Dhindsa%2C_at_the_Civil_Investiture_Cerem.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/The_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Bhushan_Award_to_Shri_Sukhdev_Singh_Dhindsa%2C_at_the_Civil_Investiture_Cerem.jpg/440px-The_President%2C_Shri_Ram_Nath_Kovind_presenting_the_Padma_Bhushan_Award_to_Shri_Sukhdev_Singh_Dhindsa%2C_at_the_Civil_Investiture_Cerem.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2140" data-file-height="1992" /></a><figcaption>President <a href="/wiki/Ram_Nath_Kovind" title="Ram Nath Kovind">Ram Nath Kovind</a> presenting the <a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> Award to Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, at the Civil Investiture Ceremony-I, at <a href="/wiki/Rashtrapati_Bhavan" title="Rashtrapati Bhavan">Rashtrapati Bhavan</a>, in <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a> on March 11, 2019.</figcaption></figure> <p>He was union minister of sports and chemicals and fertilisers in <a href="/wiki/Third_Vajpayee_Ministry" class="mw-redirect" title="Third Vajpayee Ministry">Third Vajpayee Ministry</a> from 2000 to 2004. He was member of <a href="/wiki/Rajya_Sabha" title="Rajya Sabha">Rajya Sabha</a> from 1998 to 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His son <a href="/wiki/Parminder_Singh_Dhindsa" title="Parminder Singh Dhindsa">Parminder Singh Dhindsa</a> was finance minister of Punjab from 2012 till 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sukhdev_Singh_Dhindsa&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dhindsa started his political journey as an active student leader during his graduation years at Govt. Ranbir College Sangrur. He was the first elected Secretary of Ranbir College Students' Council and subsequently elected as the president of council too. After graduating he was elected as the Sarpanch (youngest in whole district) of his native village Ubhawal in Sangrur district. Amongst the elected Sarpanches he became the chairman of Block Samiti Sangrur. Later he was elected as managing director of District Cooperative Bank, Sangrur. In 1972 Dhindsa won Dhanaula Assembly Constituency seat as an independent candidate and later joined <a href="/wiki/Shiromani_Akali_Dal" title="Shiromani Akali Dal">Shiromani Akali Dal</a> under the guidance and motivation of <a href="/wiki/Harchand_Singh_Longowal" title="Harchand Singh Longowal">Sant Harchand Singh Longowal</a>. He again was elected as an MLA from Sunam on <a href="/wiki/Shiromani_Akali_Dal" title="Shiromani Akali Dal">Shiromani Akali Dal</a> ticket and inducted as Minister of State (Independent Charge) holding the portfolios of Transport, Sports, Tourism, Cultural Affairs and Civil Aviation. In 1980 he again was re elected to Punjab Vidhan Sabha from Sangrur seat. In 1985 he became MLA from Sunam. 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of Plastics Engineering & Technology, Hajipur">Hajipur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Institute_of_Plastics_Engineering_%26_Technology,_Khunti" title="Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology, Khunti">Khunti</a></li> <li>Ahmedabad</li> <li>Amritsar</li> <li>Aurangabad</li> <li>Bhopal</li> <li>Guwahati</li> <li>Hyderabad</li> <li>Haldia</li> <li>Jaipur</li> <li>Imphal</li> <li>Lucknow</li> <li>Mysore</li> <li>Panipat</li> <li>Madurai</li> <li>Raipur</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Projects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Bulk Drug Parks</li> <li>Medical Devices Parks</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Nadu_PCPIR" title="Tamil Nadu PCPIR">Tamil Nadu PCPIR</a></li> <li>Talcher Fertilizer LTD</li> <li>Ramagundam Fertilizers And Chemicals Limited</li> <li>Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan LTD</li> <li>Paradeep Plastic Park</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">PSUs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bengal_Chemicals_and_Pharmaceuticals" title="Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals">Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Limited</a> (BCPL)</li> <li>Bramhaputra Valley Fertiliser Corporation Limited (BVFCL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/FCI_Aravali_Gypsum_and_Minerals_(India)_Limited" title="FCI Aravali Gypsum and Minerals (India) Limited">FCI Aravali Gypsum and Minerals (India) Limited</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fertilisers_and_Chemicals_Travancore" title="Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore">Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited</a> (FACT)</li> <li>Fertiliser Association of India (FAI)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fertilizer_Corporation_of_India" title="Fertilizer Corporation of India">Fertilizer Corporation of India</a> (FCIL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Antibiotics" title="Hindustan Antibiotics">Hindustan Antibiotics Limited</a> (HAL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Insecticides" title="Hindustan Insecticides">Hindustan Insecticides Limited</a> (HIL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindustan_Organic_Chemicals_Limited" title="Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited">Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited</a> (HOCL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madras_Fertilizers" title="Madras Fertilizers">Madras Fertilizers Limited</a> (MFL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Fertilizers" title="National Fertilizers">National Fertilisers Limited</a> (NFL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Projects_and_Development_India_Limited" title="Projects and Development India Limited">Projects and Development India Limited</a> (PDIL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rashtriya_Chemicals_%26_Fertilizers" title="Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers">Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers Limited</a> (RCF)</li> <li>Bramhaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gujarat_State_Fertilizers_and_Chemicals" title="Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals">Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited</a> (GSFC)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Farmers_Fertiliser_Cooperative" title="Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative">Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative</a> (IFFCO)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishak_Bharati_Cooperative" title="Krishak Bharati Cooperative">Krishak Bharati Cooperative Limited</a> (KRIBHCO)</li> <li>Karnataka Antibiotics & Pharmaceuticals Ltd</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Secretaries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>S Aparna <span style="font-size:85%;">(incumbent)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ministers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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V. Narasimha Rao">P. V. Narasimha Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Lakhan_Singh_Yadav" title="Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav">Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atal_Bihari_Vajpayee" title="Atal Bihari Vajpayee">Atal Bihari Vajpayee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sis_Ram_Ola" class="mw-redirect" title="Sis Ram Ola">Sis Ram Ola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Arunachalam_(politician)" title="M. Arunachalam (politician)">M. Arunachalam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surjit_Singh_Barnala" title="Surjit Singh Barnala">Surjit Singh Barnala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suresh_Prabhu" title="Suresh Prabhu">Suresh Prabhu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunder_Lal_Patwa" title="Sunder Lal Patwa">Sunder Lal Patwa</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Vilas_Paswan" title="Ram Vilas Paswan">Ram Vilas Paswan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._K._Azhagiri" class="mw-redirect" title="M. K. Azhagiri">M. K. Azhagiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Srikant_Kumar_Jena" title="Srikant Kumar Jena">Srikant Kumar Jena</a><i>(MoS, IC)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ananth_Kumar" title="Ananth Kumar">Ananth Kumar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._V._Sadananda_Gowda" class="mw-redirect" title="D. V. Sadananda Gowda">D. V. Sadananda Gowda</a><span style="font-size:85%;">(incumbent)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Ministers of State</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mansukh_L._Mandaviya" class="mw-redirect" title="Mansukh L. Mandaviya">Mansukh L. Mandaviya</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(incumbent)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plast_India_2020&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Plast India 2020 (page does not exist)">Plast India 2020</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2010–2019)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Padma_Bhushan_Award_recipients_2010%E2%80%932019" title="Template:Padma Bhushan Award recipients 2010–2019"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Padma_Bhushan_Award_recipients_2010%E2%80%932019" title="Template talk:Padma Bhushan Award recipients 2010–2019"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Padma_Bhushan_Award_recipients_2010%E2%80%932019" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Padma Bhushan Award recipients 2010–2019"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2010–2019)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Padma_Bhushan" title="Padma Bhushan">Padma Bhushan</a> award recipients (2010–2019)</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Satya_Paul_Agarwal" title="Satya Paul Agarwal">Satya Paul Agarwal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Amin_(historian)" title="Mohammad Amin (historian)">Mohammad Amin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sailesh_Kumar_Bandopadhyay" title="Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay">Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Banga" title="M. S. Banga">M. S. Banga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anil_Bordia" title="Anil Bordia">Anil Bordia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bipan_Chandra" title="Bipan Chandra">Bipan Chandra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._K._Chaturvedi" title="B. K. Chaturvedi">B. K. Chaturvedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sant_Singh_Chatwal" title="Sant Singh Chatwal">Sant Singh Chatwal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._P._Chopra" title="G. P. Chopra">G. P. Chopra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tan_Chung" title="Tan Chung">Tan Chung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhusudan_Dhaky" title="Madhusudan Dhaky">Madhusudan Dhaky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._R._Dubhashi" title="P. R. Dubhashi">P. R. Dubhashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puttaraj_Gawai" title="Puttaraj Gawai">Puttaraj Gawai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._M._Hegde" title="B. M. Hegde">Belle Monappa Hegde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja">Ilaiyaraaja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jagdish_Chandra_Kapur" title="Jagdish Chandra Kapur">Jagdish Chandra Kapur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrinivas_Khale" title="Shrinivas Khale">Shrinivas Khale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aamir_Khan" title="Aamir Khan">Aamir Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultan_Khan_(musician)" title="Sultan Khan (musician)">Sultan Khan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_Kumar_(artist)" title="Ram Kumar (artist)">Ram Kumar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumudini_Lakhia" title="Kumudini Lakhia">Kumudini Lakhia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuzhur_Narayana_Marar" title="Kuzhur Narayana Marar">Kuzhur Narayana Marar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chhannulal_Mishra" title="Chhannulal Mishra">Chhannulal Mishra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E._T._Narayanan_Mooss" title="E. T. Narayanan Mooss">Eledath Thaikkattu Narayanan Mooss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._P._Krishnan_Nair" title="C. P. Krishnan Nair">C. P. Krishnan Nair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Oswal" title="S. P. Oswal">S. P. Oswal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akbar_Padamsee" title="Akbar Padamsee">Akbar Padamsee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramakanta_Panda" title="Ramakanta Panda">Ramakanta Panda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balasaheb_Vikhe_Patil" title="Balasaheb Vikhe Patil">Balasaheb Vikhe Patil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arogyaswami_Paulraj" title="Arogyaswami Paulraj">Arogyaswami Paulraj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moosa_Raza" title="Moosa Raza">Moosa Raza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mallika_Sarabhai" title="Mallika Sarabhai">Mallika Sarabhai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nookala_Chinna_Satyanarayana" title="Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana">Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abhijit_Sen" title="Abhijit Sen">Abhijit Sen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satya_Vrat_Shastri" title="Satya Vrat Shastri">Satya Vrat Shastri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noshir_M._Shroff" title="Noshir M. Shroff">Noshir M. Shroff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kushal_Pal_Singh" title="Kushal Pal Singh">Kushal Pal Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bikash_Sinha" title="Bikash Sinha">Bikash Sinha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balagangadharanatha_Swamiji" title="Balagangadharanatha Swamiji">Balagangadharanatha Swamiji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narayanan_Vaghul" title="Narayanan Vaghul">Narayanan Vaghul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._K._Warrier" title="P. K. Warrier">P. K. Warrier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria" title="Fareed Zakaria">Fareed Zakaria</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2011</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajashree_Birla" title="Rajashree Birla">Rajashree Birla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._N._Buch" title="M. N. Buch">M. N. Buch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._V._Chandrasekhar" title="C. V. Chandrasekhar">C. V. Chandrasekhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajai_Chowdhry" title="Ajai Chowdhry">Ajai Chowdhry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yogesh_Chander_Deveshwar" title="Yogesh Chander Deveshwar">Yogesh Chander Deveshwar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyadev_Dubey" title="Satyadev Dubey">Satyadev Dubey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._J._S._George" title="T. J. S. George">T. J. S. George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shankha_Ghosh" title="Shankha Ghosh">Shankha Ghosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kris_Gopalakrishnan" title="Kris Gopalakrishnan">Kris Gopalakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keki_Byramjee_Grant" title="Keki Byramjee Grant">Keki Byramjee Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shashi_Kapoor" title="Shashi Kapoor">Shashi Kapoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krishen_Khanna" title="Krishen Khanna">Krishen Khanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Zahur_Khayyam" title="Mohammed Zahur Khayyam">Khayyam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chanda_Kochhar" title="Chanda Kochhar">Chanda Kochhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwijen_Mukhopadhyay" title="Dwijen Mukhopadhyay">Dwijen Mukhopadhyay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madavoor_Vasudevan_Nair" title="Madavoor Vasudevan Nair">Madavoor Vasudevan Nair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramdas_Pai" title="Ramdas Pai">Ramdas Pai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dashrath_Patel" title="Dashrath Patel">Dashrath Patel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajendra_Singh_Pawar" title="Rajendra Singh Pawar">Rajendra Singh Pawar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._Ramachandran_(scientist)" title="S. Ramachandran (scientist)">Suryanarayanan Ramachandran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shobhana_Ranade" title="Shobhana Ranade">Shobhana Ranade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._V._Krishna_Reddy" title="G. V. Krishna Reddy">Gunupati Venkata Krishna Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kallam_Anji_Reddy" title="Kallam Anji Reddy">Kallam Anji Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waheeda_Rehman" title="Waheeda Rehman">Waheeda Rehman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shyam_Saran" title="Shyam Saran">Shyam Saran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Analjit_Singh" title="Analjit Singh">Analjit Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arpita_Singh" title="Arpita Singh">Arpita Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surendra_Singh_(cabinet_secretary)" title="Surendra Singh (cabinet secretary)">Surendra Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._K._Srikantan" title="R. K. Srikantan">R. K. Srikantan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raghavan_Thirumulpad" title="Raghavan Thirumulpad">Raghavan Thirumulpad</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2012</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Suresh_H._Advani" title="Suresh H. Advani">Suresh H. Advani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shabana_Azmi" title="Shabana Azmi">Shabana Azmi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homi_K._Bhabha" title="Homi K. Bhabha">Homi K. Bhabha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shashikumar_Chitre" title="Shashikumar Chitre">Shashikumar Chitre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khaled_Choudhury" title="Khaled Choudhury">Khaled Choudhury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jatin_Das_(painter)" title="Jatin Das (painter)">Jatin Das</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vidya_Dehejia" title="Vidya Dehejia">Vidya Dehejia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharmendra" title="Dharmendra">Dharmendra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._N._Goenka" title="S. N. Goenka">S. N. Goenka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Gopalakrishnan" title="M. S. Gopalakrishnan">M. S. Gopalakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._V._Gopalakrishnan" title="T. V. Gopalakrishnan">T. V. Gopalakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhadev_Das_Gupta" title="Buddhadev Das Gupta">Buddhadev Das Gupta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunil_Janah" title="Sunil Janah">Sunil Janah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anish_Kapoor" title="Anish Kapoor">Anish Kapoor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._B._Mujumdar" title="S. B. Mujumdar">S. B. Mujumdar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Muthuraman" title="B. Muthuraman">B. Muthuraman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mira_Nair" title="Mira Nair">Mira Nair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvind_Panagariya" title="Arvind Panagariya">Arvind Panagariya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Pereira_(scholar)" title="José Pereira (scholar)">José Pereira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mata_Prasad" title="Mata Prasad">Mata Prasad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._S._Raghunathan" title="M. S. Raghunathan">M. S. Raghunathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P._Chandrasekhara_Rao" title="P. Chandrasekhara Rao">P. Chandrasekhara Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronen_Sen" title="Ronen Sen">Ronen Sen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devi_Shetty" title="Devi Shetty">Devi Shetty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._V._Subbiah" title="M. V. Subbiah">M. V. Subbiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._Vittal" title="N. Vittal">N. Vittal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._H._Wadia" title="N. H. Wadia">N. H. Wadia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Yeo" title="George Yeo">George Yeo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2013</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Satya_N._Atluri" title="Satya N. Atluri">Satya N. 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Thyagarajan (industrialist)">Ramamurthy Thyagarajan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saroja_Vaidyanathan" title="Saroja Vaidyanathan">Saroja Vaidyanathan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2014</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anisuzzaman" title="Anisuzzaman">Anisuzzaman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mrityunjay_Athreya" title="Mrityunjay Athreya">Mrityunjay Athreya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padmanabhan_Balaram" title="Padmanabhan Balaram">Padmanabhan Balaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalveer_Bhandari" title="Dalveer Bhandari">Dalveer Bhandari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruskin_Bond" title="Ruskin Bond">Ruskin Bond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anita_Desai" title="Anita Desai">Anita Desai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pullela_Gopichand" title="Pullela Gopichand">Pullela Gopichand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamal_Haasan" title="Kamal Haasan">Kamal Haasan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jyeshtharaj_Joshi" title="Jyeshtharaj Joshi">Jyeshtharaj Joshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._N._Kaul" title="V. N. Kaul">V. N. Kaul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neelam_Kler" title="Neelam Kler">Neelam Kler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Mahadevappa" title="M. Mahadevappa">M. Mahadevappa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leander_Paes" title="Leander Paes">Leander Paes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koppillil_Radhakrishnan" title="Koppillil Radhakrishnan">Koppillil Radhakrishnan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anumolu_Ramakrishna" title="Anumolu Ramakrishna">Anumolu Ramakrishna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thirumalachari_Ramasami" title="Thirumalachari Ramasami">Thirumalachari Ramasami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Rudolph" title="Lloyd Rudolph">Lloyd Rudolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susanne_Hoeber_Rudolph" title="Susanne Hoeber Rudolph">Susanne Hoeber Rudolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinod_Prakash_Sharma" title="Vinod Prakash Sharma">Vinod Prakash Sharma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gulam_Mohammed_Sheikh" title="Gulam Mohammed Sheikh">Gulam Mohammed Sheikh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parween_Sultana" title="Parween Sultana">Parween Sultana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhirubhai_Thaker" title="Dhirubhai Thaker">Dhirubhai Thaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vairamuthu" title="Vairamuthu">Vairamuthu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._S._Verma" title="J. S. Verma">J. S. Verma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._H._Vinayakram" title="T. H. Vinayakram">T. H. Vinayakram</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2015</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jahnu_Barua" title="Jahnu Barua">Jahnu Barua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manjul_Bhargava" title="Manjul Bhargava">Manjul Bhargava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_P._Bhatkar" title="Vijay P. Bhatkar">Vijay P. Bhatkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swapan_Dasgupta" title="Swapan Dasgupta">Swapan Dasgupta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Frawley" title="David Frawley">David Frawley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melinda_French_Gates" title="Melinda French Gates">Melinda French Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swami_Satyamitranand" title="Swami Satyamitranand">Swami Satyamitranand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._Gopalaswami" title="N. Gopalaswami">N. Gopalaswami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subhash_C._Kashyap" title="Subhash C. Kashyap">Subhash C. Kashyap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gokulotsavji_Maharaj" title="Gokulotsavji Maharaj">Gokulotsavji Maharaj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saichiro_Misumi" title="Saichiro Misumi">Saichiro Misumi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambrish_Mithal" title="Ambrish Mithal">Ambrish Mithal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudha_Ragunathan" title="Sudha Ragunathan">Sudha Ragunathan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harish_Salve" title="Harish Salve">Harish Salve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashok_Seth" title="Ashok Seth">Ashok Seth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajat_Sharma" title="Rajat Sharma">Rajat Sharma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satpal_Singh" title="Satpal Singh">Satpal Singh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shivakumara_Swami" title="Shivakumara Swami">Shivakumara Swami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khadg_Singh_Valdiya" title="Khadg Singh Valdiya">Khadg Singh Valdiya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2016</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._C._Bhargava" title="R. C. Bhargava">Ravindra Chandra Bhargava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_D._Blackwill" title="Robert D. Blackwill">Robert D. Blackwill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hafeez_Contractor" title="Hafeez Contractor">Hafeez Contractor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indu_Jain" title="Indu Jain">Indu Jain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heisnam_Kanhailal" title="Heisnam Kanhailal">Heisnam Kanhailal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anupam_Kher" title="Anupam Kher">Anupam Kher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sania_Mirza" title="Sania Mirza">Sania Mirza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pallonji_Mistry" title="Pallonji Mistry">Pallonji Mistry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saina_Nehwal" title="Saina Nehwal">Saina Nehwal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarlagadda_Lakshmi_Prasad" title="Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad">Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinod_Rai" title="Vinod Rai">Vinod Rai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._S._Ramanuja_Tatacharya" title="N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya">N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._V._Rama_Rao" title="A. V. Rama Rao">A. V. Rama Rao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Nageshwara_Reddy" title="D. Nageshwara Reddy">D. Nageshwara Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayananda_Saraswati_(Arsha_Vidya)" title="Dayananda Saraswati (Arsha Vidya)">Dayananda Saraswati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barjinder_Singh_Hamdard" title="Barjinder Singh Hamdard">Barjinder Singh Hamdard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ram_V._Sutar" title="Ram V. Sutar">Ram V. Sutar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tejomayananda" title="Tejomayananda">Tejomayananda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2017</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vishwa_Mohan_Bhatt" title="Vishwa Mohan Bhatt">Vishwa Mohan Bhatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deviprasad_Dwivedi" title="Deviprasad Dwivedi">Deviprasad Dwivedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratnasundarsuri" title="Ratnasundarsuri">Ratnasundarsuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niranjanananda_Saraswati" title="Niranjanananda Saraswati">Niranjanananda Saraswati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cho_Ramaswamy" title="Cho Ramaswamy">Cho Ramaswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sirindhorn" title="Sirindhorn">Maha Chakri Sirindhorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tehemton_Erach_Udwadia" title="Tehemton Erach Udwadia">Tehemton Erach Udwadia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2018</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pankaj_Advani_(billiards_player)" title="Pankaj Advani (billiards player)">Pankaj Advani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philipose_Mar_Chrysostom_Mar_Thoma" title="Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma">Philipose Mar Chrysostom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MS_Dhoni" title="MS Dhoni">Mahendra Singh Dhoni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Kadakin" title="Alexander Kadakin">Alexander Kadakin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Nagaswamy" title="R. Nagaswamy">Ramachandran Nagaswamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laxman_Pai" title="Laxman Pai">Laxman Pai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvind_Parikh" title="Arvind Parikh">Arvind Parikh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharda_Sinha" title="Sharda Sinha">Sharda Sinha</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2019</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_T._Chambers" title="John T. Chambers">John T. Chambers</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pravin_Gordhan" title="Pravin Gordhan">Pravin Gordhan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dharampal_Gulati" title="Dharampal Gulati">Dharampal Gulati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darshan_Lal_Jain" title="Darshan Lal Jain">Darshan Lal Jain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashok_Laxmanrao_Kukade" title="Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade">Ashok Laxmanrao Kukade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kariya_Munda" title="Kariya Munda">Kariya Munda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budhaditya_Mukherjee" title="Budhaditya Mukherjee">Budhaditya Mukherjee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohanlal" title="Mohanlal">Mohanlal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nambi_Narayanan" title="Nambi Narayanan">Nambi Narayanan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuldip_Nayar" title="Kuldip Nayar">Kuldip Nayar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bachendri_Pal" title="Bachendri Pal">Bachendri Pal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V._K._Shunglu" title="V. K. Shunglu">V. K. Shunglu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hukmdev_Narayan_Yadav" title="Hukmdev Narayan Yadav">Hukmdev Narayan Yadav</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div># Posthumous conferral <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1954%E2%80%931959)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1954–1959)">1954–1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1960%E2%80%931969)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1960–1969)">1960–1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1970%E2%80%931979)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1970–1979)">1970–1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1980%E2%80%931989)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1980–1989)">1980–1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(1990%E2%80%931999)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (1990–1999)">1990–1999</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2000%E2%80%932009)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2000–2009)">2000–2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2010%E2%80%932019)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2010–2019)">2010–2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Padma_Bhushan_award_recipients_(2020%E2%80%932029)" title="List of Padma Bhushan award recipients (2020–2029)">2020–2029</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p><br /> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1012311289">.mw-parser-output .asbox{position:relative;overflow:hidden}.mw-parser-output .asbox table{background:transparent}.mw-parser-output .asbox p{margin:0}.mw-parser-output .asbox p+p{margin-top:0.25em}.mw-parser-output .asbox-body{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .asbox-note{font-size:smaller}.mw-parser-output .asbox .navbar{position:absolute;top:-0.75em;right:1em;display:none}</style><div role="note" class="metadata plainlinks asbox stub"><table role="presentation"><tbody><tr class="noresize"><td><p class="asbox-body">This article about a Shiromani Akali Dal politician from Punjab, India is a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub" title="Wikipedia:Stub">stub</a>. 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