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Top Lok Sabha performers to be awarded in Chennai
Saturday April 07, 2012 05:41:26 PM,
IANS
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Chennai: Two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members of parliament and one each
from Shiv Sena and Congress would be honoured on April 14 with the
Sansad Ratna Award-2012 for raising the highest number of
questions and participating in debates.
The awards are being given by the city-based Prime Point
Foundation on Ambedkar Jayanti April 14.
"According to the data compiled by PRS Legislative Research as on
30 March 2012, Shiv Sena's Anandrao Adsul, BJP's Hansraj Gangaram
and Arjun Ram Meghwal and Congress's S.S. Ramasubbu rank as the
top performers in terms of raising the highest number of
questions, introduction of private member's bills, participation
in debates and attendance," K. Srinivasan, founder, Prime Point
Foundation, told IANS.
Raising 754 questions, Adsul has bagged the top position while
Gangaram has bagged the award for introducing 20 private member's
bills, he said.
"The BJP MP from Rajasthan, Meghwal, claims the top honours for
participating in the highest number of debates (251) and has 100
percent attendance. Congress's Ramasubbu is not only the top
performing MP from Tamil Nadu but also ranks third on the overall
category - questions+debates+private bills - after Adsul and
Gangaram," Srinivasan said.
Interestingly, two of the award winning MPs - Adsul and Gangaram -
are from Maharashtra.
Srinivasan said the foundation has been awarding the top
performers in the Lok Sabha since 2009.
"Former West Bengal governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi will preside over
the award function to be held at IIT-Madras. Former MP Era
Sezhiyan and IIT-Madras director Bhaskar Ramamurthi would be the
chief guests at the function," Srinivasan said.
According to him, two panel discussions on 'Youth in Politics and
Governance -Challenges and Opportunities' and 'Role of Civil
Society' are also slated as part of the award function.
Speaking about the award, Meghwal said: "There is lot of
negativity in the media and other areas. Unless somebody talks
about the positive aspects and positive people, there will be only
negative feeling all round."
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