The Indian Parliamentary Group (IPG) conferred the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for 2017 on Biju Janata Dal leader in the Lok Sabha Bhartruhari
Trinamool Congress member of the Lok Sabha Dinesh Trivedi gets the award for 2016 and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad (Congress) for 2015.
Rajya Sabha member Najma Heptulla gets the award for 2013 and Lok Sabha member Hukumdev Narayan Yadav for 2014.
The awardees were selected on the basis of their experience, debating skills, awareness of issues and the depth with which issues were raised
About
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 1992 by Shivraj Patil, who was the Speaker of Lok Sabha from 1991 to 1996.
Indian Parliamentary Group is a 24-member autonomous body of the current and former MPs of both houses.