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 Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Award for Best Parliamentarian Year LaureatesParty 1992 Indrajit Gupta 1994 Atal Bihari Vajpayee
List of Outstanding Parliamentarian Award Winners
Year LaureatesParty 1995 Chandra Shekhar 1996 Somnath Chatterjee 1997 Pranab Mukherjee 1998 Jaipal Reddy 1999 Lal Krishna Advani 2000 Arjun Singh 2001 Jaswant Singh 2002 Manmohan Singh 2003 Sharad Pawar 2004 Sushma Swaraj 2005 P. Chidambaram 2006 Mani Shankar Aiyar 2007 Priyaranjan Das Munshi 2008 Mohan Singh 2009 Murli Manohar Joshi 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’.
References
External links
Parliament of India, official website Indian Parliamentary Group winners list