Even padma awards misused to placate Muslims for Votes by Congress!!

Padma goof-up: Exporter passed off as J&K craftsman
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-4044705,prtpage-1.cms

NEW DELHI: The Padma Award committee seems to have goofed up big time. It has conferred the Padma Shri to Hashmat Ullah Khan of Jammu & Kashmir for being a master craftsman of the rare Kani shawls . But it now transpires that Khan is no craftsman. He is an exporter of shawls, who is said to be currently on a business trip abroad.

What’s more, the Omar Abdullah government never recommended Khan’s name. Said a senior J&K official, “The state’s general administration department has not sent this name for the award. On behalf of the government, it is this department that’s responsible for sending in names.”

It’s learnt that Khan was first recommended for a Padma Shri under the “art, culture and literature” category.

Later, it was said that he was actually in the “craftmen” category. Said another state official, “He may have been awarded for pioneering work done in promoting handicraft, but he cannot be described as a craftsman — not by any stretch.”

He added, “It’s possible some non-government organisation may have recommended his name, but that’s a sorry reflection on how the Padma Awards are given.”

When Hashmat Ullah Khan’s name was announced for the Padma award, there was a hunt for him in Srinagar.