Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar, veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Murli Manohar Joshi, cricketer Virat Kohli, Olympic winner Sakshi Malik, paralympic gold medallist Mariyappan Thangavelu and acclaimed gymnast Dipa Karmakar are among the 2017 Padma awardees that were announced on Wednesday. This year, there were seven Padma Vibhushan awardees, as many Padma Bhushan recipients and 75 Padma Shri winners.

Pawar and Joshi are among the Padma Vibhushan recipients this year, along with spiritual guru Jaggi Vasudev, scientist UR Rao, singer KJ Yesudas, late Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma and late Madhya Pradesh chief minister Sunder Lal Patwah. Among the Padma Bhushan winners were maestro Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, yogi Niranjana Nanda Saraswati and political analyst-cum-journalist late Cho Ramaswamy. The list of Padma Shri awardees featured 75 names, including Kohli, Malik, Karmakar, hockey player PR Sreejesh and discus thrower Vikas Gowda.

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Non-resident Indians, including AIDS researcher late Suniti Solomon, surbahar artist Imrat Khan and Nepal-based social worker Anuradha Koirala are among the Padma Shri recipients. Film critic Bhawana Somaaya, kalaripayattu exponent Meenakshi Amma and singers Kailash Kher and Anuradha Paudwal will also be given this honour.

There will be no Bharat Ratna recipient this year. Tamil Nadu’s All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam had earlier asked the Centre to give the award to former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who died on December 5. The Madras High Court had dismissed the plea, saying that such decisions were made by the committee relegated with the job.

PADMA VIBHUSHAN

Sharad Pawar

Murli Manohar Joshi

PA Sangma (posthumous)

Sunder Lal Patwah

KJ Yesdudas

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Udipi Ramachandra Rao

PADMA BHUSHAN

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

Devi Prasad Dwivedi

Tehemton Udwadia

Ratna Sundar Maharaj

Swami Niranjana Nanda Saraswati

HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn (foreigner)

Late Shri Cho Ramaswamy (posthumous)

PADMA SHRI

Basanti Bisht

Chemanchery Kunhiraman Nair

Aruna Mohanty

Bharathi Vishnuvardhan

Sadhu Meher

T K Murthy

Laishram Birendrakumar Singh

Krishna Ram Chaudhary

Baoa Devi

Tilak Gitai

Aekka Yadagiri Rao

Jitendra Haripal

Kailash Kher

Parassala B Ponnammal

Sukri Bommagowda

Mukund Nayak

Purushottam Upadhyay

Anuradha Paudwal

Wareppa Naba Nil

Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary

T.K. Viswanathan

Kanwal Sibal

Birkha Bahadur Limboo Muringla

Eli Ahmed

Narendra Kohli

G. Venkatasubbiah

Akkitham Achyuthan Namboothiri

Kashi Nath Pandita

Chamu Krishna Shastry

Harihar Kripalu Tripathi

Michel Danino

Punam Suri

VG Patel

V Koteswaramma

Balbir Dutt

Bhawana Somaaya

Vishnu Pandya

Subroto Das

Bhakti Yadav

Mohammed Abdul Waheed

Madan Madhav Godbole

Devendra Dayabhai Patel

Harkishan Singh

Mukut Minz

Arun Kumar Sharma

Sanjeev Kapoor

Meenakshi Amma

Genabhai Dargabhai Patel

Chandrakant Pithawa

Ajoy Kumar Ray

Chintakindi Mallesham

Jitendra Nath Goswami

Daripalli Ramaiah

Girish Bhardwaj

Karimul Hak

Bipin Ganatra

Nivedita Raghunath Bhide

Appasaheb Dharmadhikari

Baba Balbir Singh Seechewal

Virat Kohli

Shekar Naik

Vikasa Gowda

Deepa Malik

Mariyappan Thangavelu

Dipa Karmakar

P. R. Shreejesh

Sakshi Malik

Mohan Reddy Venkatrama Bodanapu

Imrat Khan

Anant Agarwal

H.R. Shah

Suniti Solomon

Asoke Kumar Bhattacharyya

Dr. Mapuskar

Anuradha Koirala