Outstanding Parliamentarian Award

President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Outstanding Parliamentarian Awards on Arun Jaitley, Dr Karan Singh and Sharad Yadav. The awards were given for their invaluable contribution in discharge of their parliamentary duties. The awards were given at Balyogi Auditorium in Parliament Library, New Delhi.

• BJP leader Arun Jaitley received the award for the year 2010

• Congress Veteran Karan Singh received the award for the year 2011

• JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav received the award for the year for 2012

President while conferring the awards asked all Parliamentarians to uphold the prestige and dignity of Parliament, as it’s a responsibility of every Parliamentarian.

About Outstanding Parliamentarian Award: The Outstanding Parliamentarian Award was instituted in 1992 by Shivraj Patil who was then the Speaker of Lok Sabha from 1991-96. The award is given by the Indian Parliamentary Group to an outstanding sitting Member of the Indian Parliament for overall contribution in Indian Parliament.

Recipients of the Award:

• Indrajit Gupta in 1992                   • Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 1994

• Chandrasekhar in 1995                 • Somnath Chatterjee 1996

• Pranab Mukherjee in 1997           • Jaipal Reddy in 1998

• Lal Krishna Advani in 1999         • Arjun Singh in 2000

• Jaswant Singh in 2001                   • Manmohan Singh in 2002

• Sharad Pawar in 2003                    • Sushma Swaraj in 2004

• P Chidambaram in 2005               • Manishankar Iyer in 2006

• Priyranjan Das Munshi in 2007   • Mohan Singh in 2008

• Murli Manohar Joshi in 2009