Prime Point Srinivasan (Founder and Chairman of NGPL) and Srinivas Prabhu (Retired Joint Secretary of Lok Sabha Secretariat) were also present and shared their views.
Priyadharshni Rahul (National President) and Sridhar Raj (National Convenor) will be working out the plan for the workshop in consultation with the new Governing Council, to be announced .
NGPL Interactive session with Shri T K Rangarajan, Former Rajya Sabha MP
On 15 April 2021, evening NGPL had organised an interactive session in Tamil through Zoom with Shri T K Rangarajan, Former Rajya Sabha MP and a Senior leader of CPIM. Around 25 young political leaders and active workers of different parties participated and interacted with Mr TK Rangarajan.
During the entire session of nearly 75 minutes, the young participants from different ideologically opposite parties maintained high level of dignity respecting each other. The questions and the responses were focussed on developing political career ethically and the skills needed.
Mr T K Rangarajan (81) is one of the highly respected Political leaders in India having served 12 years in Rajya Sabha.
Please watch the useful interactive session in Tamil. He has shared lot of tips for young leaders for their development.
https://youtu.be/THPTz7wF1AI
(Sitting L to R : Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Shri Sunil Arora, Justice Shri A K Patnaik, Shri Shrirang Appa Barne - Smt. Priyadharshni Rahul on the podium)
11th Edition of Sansad Ratna Awards 2021
The 11th edition was held on
20th March 2021 at the prestigious Constitution Club of India, New
Delhi. Shri Sunil Arora (Hon’ble Chief
Election Commissioner of India) and Justice Shri A K Patnaik (Former
Judge, Supreme Court of India) presented the Awards during the Awards
function. Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal
(Hon’ble MoS, Parliamentary Affairs, and Chairman of Jury Committee) was also
present. Ten Parliamentarians received
Awards. The event was telecast live by
Doordarshan News and other private channels.
Shri Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJD, Odisha)
and Shri Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena, Maharashtra) received the Sansad Maha
Ratna Awards for the 16th Lok Sabha.
Smt Supriya Sule (NCP, Maharashtra), though nominated for Sansad Maha
Awards, could not participate due to some urgent official work. Sansad Maha Ratna Awards are given once in
five years.
This is the first time that the Sansad
Ratna Awards function was held outside Chennai, and in the national capital of
the country. The gist of the speeches of the Chief Guests and the new list of
Sansad Ratna Committee Members are included in this edition.
For the first time in the 12 years of
the Sansad Ratna Awards functions, school students participated as volunteers
at the function in New Delhi. The
Management of Ahlcon Public School supported the event with the participation
of 10 senior student volunteers. The
students were given the opportunity to interact with India’s top performing
Parliamentarians.
Synopses of the speeches of the main
dignitaries, with YouTube links, are given below.
Videos of the 11th Sansad Ratna Awards function: www.tinyurl.com/sansadratna2021
Photographs of the event: https://photos.app.goo.gl/fUidDS3SjSmNvqdZ7
Please watch the Award function in this video.
Shri Sunil Arora (Hon'ble Chief Election Commissioner of India), Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal (Hon'ble MoS, Parliamentary Affairs) and Justice Shri A K Patnaik (Former Judge, Supreme Court of India) will be the Chief Guests to present the Awards.
MeTV, one of the leading Australian OTT Platform has carried an exclusive interview with Prime Point Srinivasan (Chairman of Sansad Ratna Awards Committee) and Priyadharshni Rahul (Working President of the Sansad Ratna Awards Committee) on the journey of Sansad Ratna Awards since 2010.
During the course of the interview, the performance of Indian Parliamentarians, role of women MPs in the Parliament, the need for youngsters to enter into politics were discussed.
Sansad Ratna Awards are presented to top performing Parliamentarians based on the data provided by the PRS India and Lok Sabha Secretariat by Prime Point Foundation and eMagtazine PreSense. The awardees are selected in a transparent manner by a Jury Committee of eminent Parliamentarians. This is the only award presented on behalf of the civil society.
Please watch this interview. The show was hosted by Sukruti Narayanan, actor and a communication strategist at Australia.
Dr E M Sudarsana Nachiappan, is the Former MoS in Government of India during Dr Manmohan Singh regime and Chairman of Rajya Sabha Committee on Public grievances, Law and Justice. As the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee, he has presented two reports on this subject to Parliament. Report No 18 on Electoral Reforms and Report 79 on Simultaneous Elections.
Shri T S Krtishnamurthy was the Chief Election Commissioner of India and the first consolidated petition was given by him in 2004 to the then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh giving out various suggestions for Electoral Reforms.
Please watch their conversation.
