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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.
Recipients
| Year | Laureates | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 
|
Chandra Shekhar | SJP(R) | |
| 1996 | 
|
Somnath Chatterjee | CPI(M) | |
| 1997 | 
|
Pranab Mukherjee | INC | |
| 1998 | 
|
S. Jaipal Reddy | JD | |
| 1999 | 
|
Lal Krishna Advani | BJP | |
| 2000 | 
|
Arjun Singh | INC | |
| 2001 | 
|
Jaswant Singh | BJP | |
| 2002 | 
|
Manmohan Singh | INC | |
| 2003 | 
|
Sharad Pawar | NCP | |
| 2004 | _(cropped).jpg)
|
Sushma Swaraj | BJP | |
| 2005 | .jpg)
|
P. Chidambaram | INC | |
| 2006 | 
|
Mani Shankar Aiyar | INC | |
| 2007 | 
|
Priyaranjan Das Munshi | INC | |
| 2008 | Mohan Singh | SP | ||
| 2009 | 
|
Murli Manohar Joshi | BJP | |
| 2010 | 
|
Arun Jaitley | BJP | |
| 2011 | 
|
Karan Singh | INC | |
| 2012 | 
|
Sharad Yadav | JD(U) | |
| 2013 | 
|
Najma Heptulla | BJP | |
| 2014 | .JPG) |
Hukmdev Narayan Yadav | BJP | |
| 2015 | .jpg)
|
Ghulam Nabi Azad | INC | |
| 2016 | 
|
Dinesh Trivedi | AITC | |
| 2017
|
|
Bhartruhari Mahtab
|
BJD | |
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’.
References
- ^ "Indian Parliamentary Group". Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- ^ "Dasmunsi, M M Joshi to get Outstanding Parliamentarian award". Times of India. New Delhi. 6 August 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
- IANS (2 August 2018). "Rajya Sabha Congratulates Best Parliamentarian Awardees". NDTV. Archived from the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
- "Need for 'please-all' Parliamentarian Award questioned". The Hindu. 27 March 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
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