What award was given to the Indian politician belonging to the Indian broad based political party founded in 1885?
Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (   ) (INC, often called Congress) is a broad-based political party in India. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Empire in Asia and Africa. From the late 19th-century, and especially after 1920, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, Congress became the principal leader of the Indian independence movement, with over 15 million members and over 70 million participants. The Congress led India to independence from Great Britain, and powerfully influenced other anti-colonial nationalist movements in the British Empire.
Bilat Paswan Vihangam Bilat Paswan, who writes under the nome de plume, Vihangam, is an Indian writer and politician, known for his writings in Maithili literature. He is a former chairman of Bihar Public Service Commission. Born in 1940 to Bhutai Paswan in Bihar, he represented Khajauli constituency at the Bihar Legislative Assembly for two terms in 1985 and 1990, contesting under Indian National Congress candidature, defeating Ram Lakhan Ram of the Communist Party of India on both the elections. He also contested two elections unsuccessfully, in 1980 and 2000. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2005, for his contributions to literature.