Evan as the Maharashtra Government revealed that it had written to the central government to give the Bharat Ratna to Sachin Tendulkar, the calls for the cricket icon being given the country's top civilian award is growing.

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Describing Tendulkar as the "son of the soil", Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday told the state assembly that after India's World Cup victory last year, the state cabinet had met and decided that it would recommend Tendulkar's name for the Bharat Ratna.

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