17 lawmakers receive Sansad Ratna Awards

Seventeen MPs have been honoured with the Sansad Ratna Awards for their parliamentary performance.

Supriya Sule of the Nationalist Congress Party (SP), BJP leaders Ravi Kishan and Nishikant Dubey, and Arvind Sawant of the Shiv Sena (UBT) have been selected for the Sansad Ratna Awards-2025 for their exemplary performance in the Lok Sabha.

Besides, special awards have been conferred on Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJP, Odisha), NK Premachandran (Revolutionary Socialist Party, Kerala), Sule and Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena, Maharashtra) — all of whom have maintained top performance since the 16th Lok Sabha.

The honours also include four Special Jury Awards, recognising their consistent contributions to parliamentary democracy across three successive terms.

Other award-winning MPs included Smita Uday Wagh (BJP), Naresh Mhaske (Shiv Sena), Varsha Gaikwad (Congress), Medha Kulkarni (BJP), Praveen Patel (BJP), Bidyut Baran Mahato (BJP), and Dilip Saikia (BJP).

In the committee category, the Standing Committee on Finance, chaired by Bhartruhari Mahtab, and the Standing Committee on Agriculture, chaired by Dr Charanjit Singh Channi (Congress), were recognised for the quality of reports and contributions to legislative oversight.