Supriya Sule Amar Patnaik among 11 MPs shortlisted for Sansad Ratna AwardNew Delhi Feb 22 P
New Delhi Feb 22 PTI NCPs Supriya Sule and BJDs Amar Patnaik are among 11 MPs shortlisted for the Sansad Ratna Award 2022 Prime Point Foundation said on Tuesday The jury committee has also nominated senior BJP leader from Tamil Nadu H V Hande and Congress veteran M Veerappa Moily for a lifetime achievement award while four parliamentary standing committees — agriculture finance education and labour will be awarded for their contributions The 11 parliamentarians include eight from the Lok Sabha and three from the Rajya Sabha the foundation said in a statement According to the foundation Nationalist Congress Party NCP MP Sule Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP MP N K Premachandran and Shiv Sena MP Shrirang Appa Barne will be awarded the Sansad Vishisht Ratna award for their sustained outstanding performance Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy West Bengal Congress MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Bharatiya Janata Party BJP MPs Bidyut Baran Mahato Jharkhand Heena Vijayakumar Gavit Maharashtra and Sudhir Gupta Madhya Pradesh were shortlisted for the Sansad Ratna Award for their performance in the 17th Lok Sabha it said In the upper house Biju Janata Dal BJD MP Amar Patnaik Odisha and NCP MP Fauzia Tahseen Ahmed Khan Maharashtra were shortlisted for their performance in 2021 under the sitting members category Communist Party of India Marxist MP K K Ragesh Kerala has been nominated for the award under the retired members in 2021 category for his outstanding performance during his full term in Rajya Sabha it said The awardees were shortlisted based on their cumulative performance from the beginning of the 17th Lok Sabha till the end of the winter session 2021 based on the data provided by PRS India Prime Point Foundations founding chairman K Srinivasan said The Sansad Ratna Awards committee was chaired by Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal and co-chaired by T S Krishnamurthy former chief election commissioner of India The awards were instituted on the suggestion of former president late APJ Abdul Kalam to honour the top performing parliamentarians The first award function was held in 2010 at Chennai and Kalam himself launched the initiative Till now 75 top performing parliamentarians have been honoured according to the foundation PTI JTR RHL
New Delhi Feb 22 PTI NCPs Supriya Sule and BJDs Amar Patnaik are among 11 MPs shortlisted for the Sansad Ratna Award 2022 Prime Point Foundation said on Tuesday The jury committee has also nominated senior BJP leader from Tamil Nadu H V Hande and Congress veteran M Veerappa Moily for a lifetime achievement award while four parliamentary standing committees — agriculture finance education and labour will be awarded for their contributions The 11 parliamentarians include eight from the Lok Sabha and three from the Rajya Sabha the foundation said in a statement According to the foundation Nationalist Congress Party NCP MP Sule Revolutionary Socialist Party RSP MP N K Premachandran and Shiv Sena MP Shrirang Appa Barne will be awarded the Sansad Vishisht Ratna award for their sustained outstanding performance Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy West Bengal Congress MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Bharatiya Janata Party BJP MPs Bidyut Baran Mahato Jharkhand Heena Vijayakumar Gavit Maharashtra and Sudhir Gupta Madhya Pradesh were shortlisted for the Sansad Ratna Award for their performance in the 17th Lok Sabha it said In the upper house Biju Janata Dal BJD MP Amar Patnaik Odisha and NCP MP Fauzia Tahseen Ahmed Khan Maharashtra were shortlisted for their performance in 2021 under the sitting members category Communist Party of India Marxist MP K K Ragesh Kerala has been nominated for the award under the retired members in 2021 category for his outstanding performance during his full term in Rajya Sabha it said The awardees were shortlisted based on their cumulative performance from the beginning of the 17th Lok Sabha till the end of the winter session 2021 based on the data provided by PRS India Prime Point Foundations founding chairman K Srinivasan said The Sansad Ratna Awards committee was chaired by Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal and co-chaired by T S Krishnamurthy former chief election commissioner of India The awards were instituted on the suggestion of former president late APJ Abdul Kalam to honour the top performing parliamentarians The first award function was held in 2010 at Chennai and Kalam himself launched the initiative Till now 75 top performing parliamentarians have been honoured according to the foundation PTI JTR RHL
