Former UP CM late Kalyan Singh, India’s first Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and former West Bengal CM and CPM leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee were selected for this year’s Padma awards. Cyrus Poonawalla of the Serum Institute of India, which manufactured Covid vaccine Covishield, and Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella of Bharat Biotech, which produced India’s indigenous coronavirus vaccine Covaxin, were also given Padma Bhushan.