Outstanding Parliamentarian Award

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
List of Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards Winner
Year Laureates
1992 Indrajit Gupta
1994 Atal Bihari Vajpayee[1]
1995 Chandra Shekhar[1]
1996 Somnath Chatterjee[1]
1997 Pranab Mukherjee[1]
1998 S. Jaipal Reddy[1]
1999 Lal Krishna Advani[1]
2000 Arjun Singh[1]
2001 Jaswant Singh[1]
2002 Manmohan Singh[1]
2003 Sharad Pawar
2004 Sushma Swaraj
2005 P. Chidambaram
2006 Mani Shankar Aiyar
2007 Priyaranjan Das Munshi[2]
2008 Mohan Singh[2]
2009 Murli Manohar Joshi[2]
2010 Arun Jaitley
2011 Karan Singh
2012 Sharad Yadav
2013 Najma Heptulla
2014 Hukmdev Narayan Yadav
2015 Ghulam Nabi Azad
2016 Dinesh Trivedi
2017


Bhartruhari Mahtab


Criticism

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
  1. "Indian Parliamentary Group". Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  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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