Rashtrapati Bhavan

President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday presented the Padma awards for the year 2023 at the Civil Investiture Ceremony held in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Music director Marakathamani Keeravaani, who has hogged the limelight for the 'RRR' song 'Naatu Naatu', and Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon were among those who received the Padma Shri.

The parliamentarians had planned to give a memorandum to President Droupadi Murmu over the Central government's alleged vendetta politics and no discussion of important issues like price rise in Parliament.

Yashwant Sinha also questioned the silence of the current President on vital issues and said, "If we talk about the last five years, it was a period of silence in the Rashtrapati Bhavan. We saw a silent President." Sinha also said that his former party BJP is dead and gone. However, he termed former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee as a consensus builder who always consulted the Opposition. "Politics based on consensus has ended and now it is the era of politics of confrontation," he said.