The Narendra Modi government has conferred Bharat Ratna on former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur to get votes from the eastern state in the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Sunday, reported the PTI.

Addressing a gathering of Shiv Sena workers in Mumbai, Uddhav Thackeray claimed the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was the forerunner of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), had opposed Thakur's decision to give 26 per cent reservation to backward classes in government jobs, as per the PTI.