Outstanding Parliamentarian Award

Template:Short description Template:More citations Template:Use dmy dates 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.<ref name=Group>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Recipients

List of Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards Winner

Year	Laureates		Party
1995		Chandra Shekhar<ref name=Group/>	Template:Party name with color
1996		Somnath Chatterjee<ref name=Group/>	Template:Party name with color
1997		Pranab Mukherjee<ref name=Group/>	Template:Party name with color
1998		Jaipal Reddy<ref name=Group/>	Template:Party name with color
1999		Lal Krishna Advani<ref name=Group/>	Template:Party name with color
2000		Arjun Singh<ref name=Group/>	Template:Party name with color
2001		Jaswant Singh<ref name=Group/>	Template:Party name with color
2002		Manmohan Singh<ref name=Group/>	Template:Party name with color
2003		Sharad Pawar	Template:Party name with color
2004		Sushma Swaraj	Template:Party name with color
2005		P. Chidambaram	Template:Party name with color
2006		Mani Shankar Aiyar	Template:Party name with color
2007		Priyaranjan Das Munshi<ref name=Munshi>Template:Cite news</ref>	Template:Party name with color
2008		Mohan Singh<ref name=Munshi/>	Template:Party name with color
2009		Murli Manohar Joshi<ref name=Munshi/>	Template:Party name with color
2010		Arun Jaitley	Template:Party name with color
2011		Karan Singh	Template:Party name with color
2012		Sharad Yadav	Template:Party name with color
2013		Najma Heptulla	Template:Party name with color
2014		Hukmdev Narayan Yadav	Template:Party name with color
2015		Ghulam Nabi Azad	Template:Party name with color
2016		Dinesh Trivedi	Template:Party name with color
2017		Bhartruhari Mahtab<ref name="Rajya Sabha Congratulates Best Parliamentarian Awardees">Template:Cite news</ref>	Template:Party name with color

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’.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

External links

• Parliament of India, official website
• Indian Parliamentary Group winners list

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