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title: "Who was the first recipient of the Govind Ballabh Pant Award for the best parliamentarian?"  
description: "Who was the first recipient of the Govind Ballabh Pant Award for the best parliamentarian?"  
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published: 2017-11-15  
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# Who was the first recipient of the Govind Ballabh Pant Award for the best parliamentarian? 

Who was the first recipient of the Govind Ballabh Pant Award for the best parliamentarian?

## Answers

### Answer by akriti kashyap

## Govind Ballabh Pant Award!\

![Who was the first recipient of the Govind Ballabh Pant Award for the best parliamentarian?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/a850a91a-e04e-417d-8c5c-e5f063c69118/images/f032e763-e0d7-4cd9-9e1c-5bfa2d460d88.png)**\**

**Mr Indrajit Gupta** was the first who was honored with the award of **Govind Ballabh Pant** for best parliamentarian.

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**Let us know about him in brief:**\
According to Wikipedia, he was an Indian Politician who was known to be the part of Communist Party of India (CPI) and was part of this globe from **18th of March 1919 till 20th February 2001**. In the time slab from **1996-98**, he served as the **Union Home Minister** in the United Front legislatures of executives H. D. Deve Gowda and I. K. Gujral. That was a sensational inversion of parts, as the home ministry had, since freedom in 1947, prohibited the CPI thrice, with a considerable lot of its individuals, including Gupta, being sent to jail or pushed underground for long extends. Gupta was consulted with the '**Outstanding Parliamentarian**' Award in **1992**. He served the Lok Sabha for a long time, and when he kicked the bucket **President K.R. Narayanan** paid a tribute, utilizing three attributes in his sympathy message that reasonably portrays the man: "**Gandhian effortlessness, law based viewpoint and profound sense of duty regarding values**."

***One of the great leader and a great loss for the nation...***

**Cheers to him!**\
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