Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday offered tributes to former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur on his birth anniversary. Modi said the upliftment of the exploited, deprived, and weaker sections of society was always at the center of Thakur’s politics. “On the occasion of the birth anniversary of former chief minister of Bihar, Bharat Ratna Jananayak Karpoori Thakur ji, I offer my humble salutations,” the prime minister said in a post on X.