National Film Awards
were already announced, a few weeks back and the award distributing event has been held today in New Delhi. Earlier, it was said that the cabinet Minister Smriti Irani would be distributing the awards to the National Award Winners. Following this, many of them announced that this seems to be a disgrace to them and they would boycott the event. “A R Rahman” and “
K J Yesudas
” were felicitated by Ramnath Kovind, the President of India. The rest of the awardees are honored by Smriti Irani. As said, 65 awardees skipped the event. This has created a huge controversy, now. The real reason why President Ramnath Kovind shared the award distributing event with Smriti Irani is not yet known!