Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Arunachal Pradesh Tapir Gao on Wednesday (July 30, 2025) asked the Central government to confer India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, on the Dalai Lama – the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhists.

He raised the issue during Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha, where he described the Dalai Lama as a “messenger of non violence and compassion.”