May 2013 ~ Sansad Ratna

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Sansad Ratna Award 2013 winning MPs Anandrao Adsul, Hansraj and Ramasubbu share their inspiring stories

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Sansad Ratna Award 2013 winning MPs Hansraj G Ahir, Anandrao Adsul and S S Ramasubbu,

Sansad Ratna Awards 2013 were presented to top performing Lok Sabha MPs on 20th April 2013 at IIT Madras. The Awards are instituted by Prime Point Foundation. After the presentation of Awards, the award winning MPs were invited for a panel discussion to share their success stories. We have written about this in our earlier posting also.

Mr Anandrao Adsul (Shiv Sena MP from Maharashtra) and Mr Hansraj G Ahir (BJP MP from Maharashtra) shared their experiences and also expressed their views on disruption of Parliament. They are receiving the Awards for the fourth year in a row. Please listen to their views. (17 minutes)

This video may also be watched from the link

http://youtu.be/_ZKrnUUgByI

Mr S S Ramasubbu (Congress MP from Tamil Nadu) is also one of the outstanding MPs of Lok Sabha. He has been receiving the Award for the past four years continously. Please listen to his success story.

This video may also be watched from the link

http://youtu.be/4xU3bs4_mHM

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Sansad Ratna Awards 2013 - Panel discussion on politics, democracy and governance

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Panel discussion in Tamil on politics, democracy and governance

In our earlier posting, we write briefly about the Sansad Ratna Awards 2013 function and the National Seminar on politics, democracy and governance held at IIT Madras on 20th April 2013. The Awards were instituted by Prime Point Foundation, Chennai for the top performing Lok Sabha MPs. The national seminar was organised jointly with Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Madras.

In the post lunch session, a panel discussion was held on the same theme. Mr Thol Thirumavalavan MP (VCK), Ms Vijayadarani MLA (Congress), Mr CH Sekar MLA (DMDK), Mr H Raja (BJP), Ms Vasuki (CPIM), Mr Prem Shankar (Puthiyathalaimurai TV), Ms Josephine (Academician), Mr P K Saravanan (Student) and Mr V Ponraj (Advisor to Dr Abdul Kalam) were the expert panelists. Ms Bhanu Gomes, anchored the discussions.

Youth participation in politics, electoral reforms, role of voters in democracy, better governance and many other topics were discussed. The leaders from different political parties and opposite ideologies showed the highest level of maturity and decency in their conversations. We embed below the discussions in three parts. Please watch them. The proceedings are in Tamil.

Part - One