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PM Modi hits out at Congress for late Bharat Ratna to Bhupen Hazarika

Guwahati/Itanagar, Feb 9 (IBNS) : In a bid to fuel the local sentiment in favour of his Government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that singer-composer Bhupen Hazarika could have been alive to receive the Bharat Ratna  award but it did not happen in the grand old party's regime as such honours were "reserved for some people at the time of their birth".