Outstanding Parliamentarian Award

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The Outstanding Parliamentarian Award is an award given by the Indian Parliamentary Group to an outstanding sitting Member of the Indian Parliament for overall contribution in the Indian Parliament. It was instituted in 1995 by Shivraj Patil, who was the Speaker of Lok Sabha from 1991 to 1996.[1]

Recipients[edit]

List of Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards Winner
Year Laureates
1992 Indrajit Gupta
1994 Atal Bihari Vajpayee 2002-06-12.jpg Atal Bihari Vajpayee[1]
1995 Chandra Shekhar[1]
1996 Somnath Chatterjee speaking at the inauguration of the Eighth meeting of the Commonwealth Chief Election Officers, organised by the Election Commission of India in co-ordination with the Commonwealth Secretariat, in New Delhi.jpg Somnath Chatterjee[1]
1997 Secretary Tim Geithner and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee 2010 crop.jpg Pranab Mukherjee[1]
1998 Jaipal Sudini Reddy 03212.JPG S. Jaipal Reddy[1]
1999 Lkadvani.jpg Lal Krishna Advani[1]
2000 Arjun Singh.jpg Arjun Singh[1]
2001 Jaswant Singh.jpg Jaswant Singh[1]
2002 Manmohan Singh in 2009.jpg Manmohan Singh[1]
2003 Sharad Pawar, Minister of AgricultureCrop.jpg Sharad Pawar
2004 Secretary Tillerson is Greeted by Indian Minister of External Affairs Swaraj (24074726498) (cropped).jpg Sushma Swaraj
2005 Pchidambaram (cropped).jpg P. Chidambaram
2006 Mani Shankar Aiyar at KLF2016.jpg Mani Shankar Aiyar
2007 Priyaranjan Dasmunsi addressing at the inauguration of a workshop on Gender Equality in Indian Media being organized by the Ministry of women and child Development on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day.jpg Priyaranjan Das Munshi[2]
2008 Mohan Singh[2]
2009 Murli Manohar Joshi MP.jpg Murli Manohar Joshi[2]
2010 Arun Jaitley, Minister.jpg Arun Jaitley
2011 Dr-Karan-Singh-sept2009.jpg Karan Singh
2012 Sharadyadavjdu.jpg Sharad Yadav
2013 The Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Dr. Najma A. Heptulla addressing at the inauguration of an exhibition, in New Delhi on March 19, 2016.jpg Najma Heptulla
2014 Hukmdev Narayan Yadav
2015 Ghulam Nabi Azad-cropped.JPG Ghulam Nabi Azad
2016 Dinesh trivedi.jpg Dinesh Trivedi
2017


Surendra Nath Acharya being felicitated by Bhartruhari Mahtab.jpg Bhartruhari Mahtab


Criticism[edit]

It has been observed that the award has been awarded in a pattern to senior leaders of major political parties. Questions have been raised on the need, seriousness and authenticity of the exercise to present the ‘Outstanding Parliamentarian Award’.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "Indian Parliamentary Group". Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Dasmunsi, M M Joshi to get Outstanding Parliamentarian award". Times of India. New Delhi. 6 August 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "Need for 'please-all' Parliamentarian Award questioned". The Hindu. 27 March 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2014.

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