The central government on Monday formed a high-level committee for the commemoration of the 100th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be leading the committee. Other prominent members of the committee include former Presidents Pratibha Devisingh Patil and Ram Nath Kovind and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda. A total of 128 members have been included in the committee, including Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, spritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, actor Anant Nag, CBFC chairperson Prasoon Joshi, former Indian captain Kapil Dev, India TV Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma, ‘Metro Man’ E Sreedharan, industrialists Mohandas Pai, Azim Premji and Shiv Nadar, and Mary Kom and Dr Randeep Guleria.
