5 Lok Sabha MPs selected for Sansad Ratna Awards

NEW DELHI: Five Lok Sabha MPs, including BJP's Sukanta Majumdar and Shiv Sena's Shrikant Eknath Shinde, have been selected for the Sansad Ratna Awards which were announced on Sunday.

The awards will be presented at a function here on February 17. BJP's Sudheer Gupta, NCP's Amol Ramsing Kolhe and Congress's Kuldeep Rai Sharma are the other three MPs selected for the awards.

The Sansad Ratna Awards are presented annually to the top-performing parliamentarians based on performance, while the Sansad Maha Ratna Awards are presented once in five years for consistency in performance in Lok Sabha. Set up by Chennai-based non-profit charitable trust Prime Point Foundation on the suggestion of former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam in 2010, the awards are based on comprehensive performance, with nominees being selected by a jury committee chaired by Arjun Ram Meghwal, minister for law and parliamentary affairs, and T S Krishnamurthy, former chief election commissioner of India.

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