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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

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List of Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards Winner
Year Laureates Party
1995 Chandra Shekhar[1] SJP(R)
1996 Somnath Chatterjee[1] CPI(M)
1997 Pranab Mukherjee[1] INC
1998 S. Jaipal Reddy[1] JD
1999 Lal Krishna Advani[1] BJP
2000 Arjun Singh[1] INC
2001 Jaswant Singh[1] BJP
2002 Manmohan Singh[1] INC
2003 Sharad Pawar NCP
2004 Sushma Swaraj BJP
2005 P. Chidambaram INC
2006 Mani Shankar Aiyar INC
2007 Priyaranjan Das Munshi[2] INC
2008 Mohan Singh[2] SP
2009 Murli Manohar Joshi[2] BJP
2010 Arun Jaitley BJP
2011 Karan Singh INC
2012 Sharad Yadav JD(U)
2013 Najma Heptulla BJP
2014
Hukmdev Narayan Yadav BJP
2015 Ghulam Nabi Azad INC
2016 Dinesh Trivedi AITC
2017


Bhartruhari Mahtab[3]


BJD

Criticism

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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’.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Indian Parliamentary Group". Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "Dasmunsi, M M Joshi to get Outstanding Parliamentarian award". Times of India. New Delhi. 6 August 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  3. ^ IANS (2 August 2018). "Rajya Sabha Congratulates Best Parliamentarian Awardees". NDTV. Archived from the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Need for 'please-all' Parliamentarian Award questioned". The Hindu. 27 March 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
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