Odisha’s Amar Patnaik Among 11 MPs To Be Conferred Sansad Ratna Awards

Bhubaneswar: BJD’s Rajya Sabha member Amar Patnaik is among 11 MPs who will be conferred the Sansad Ratna Award 2022.

The 11 parliamentarians include eight from the Lok Sabha and three from the Rajya Sabha, Prime Point Foundation said in a statement on Tuesday. The awards will be presented to them at the 12th edition of the Sansad Ratna Award function to be held in New Delhi on February 26.

Patnaik and Fauzia Tahseen Ahmed Khan, the Rajya Sabha MP of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) from Maharashtra, will be awarded for their performance in 2021 under the ‘sitting members’ category.

According to the foundation, NCP’ Supriya 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) will get the Sansad Ratna Award for their performance in the 17th Lok Sabha.

Senior BJP leader from Tamil Nadu H V Hande and Congress veteran M Veerappa Moily have been nominated for  lifetime achievement award and four parliamentary standing committees on agriculture, finance, education and labour for their contributions.