Shri Narendra Modi congratulates Shri Arun Jaitley, Dr. Karan Singh and Shri Sharad Yadav for bring conferred ‘Outstanding Parliamentary Award’ for 2010, 2011 and 2012 respectively
Congratulations to Arun Jaitley ji, Dr. Karan Singh ji & Sharad Yadav ji on being conferred the 'Outstanding Parliamentarian Award’: Shri Modi on Twitter
On Thursday 7th March 2013 Shri Narendra Modi congratulated the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Shri Arun Jaitley, Congress MP, former Minister & the President of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations Dr. Karan Singh and JD (U) MP & NDA convener Shri Sharad Yadav on being conferred the ‘Outstanding Parliamentarian Award.’Shri Modi Tweeted, “Congratulations to Arun Jaitley ji, Dr. Karan Singh ji & Sharad Yadav ji on being conferred the 'Outstanding Parliamentarian Award.”
While Shri Jaitley was conferred the award for 2010, Dr. Karan Singh was conferred the award for 2011 and Shri Sharad Yadav for 2012. Shri Jaitley represents Gujarat in the Rajya Sabha, Dr. Karan Singh represents Delhi in the Rajya Sabha and Shri Yadav is the MP from Madhepura (Bihar) in the Lok Sabha.
The Outstanding Parliamentarian Award was constituted by the Indian Parliamentary Group in 1995 to honors sitting Members of Parliament. Previous winners of the Award include Shri LK Advani, Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, Shri Jaswant Singh and Smt. Sushma Swaraj.