Minister in the Bhupinder Singh Hooda Government, Randeep Singh Surjewala has been chosen as the best legislator of Haryana Assembly.
A seven-member Award Committee headed by Speaker Haryana Vidhan Sabha, Kuldeep Sharma on Wednesday recommended the name of Surjewala for Best legislator Award of Haryana for the year 2012-13.
A spokesman of Haryana Vidhan Sabha said that the award, which carries Rs1lakh in cash, a trophy and a certificate, would be conferred upon Surjewala in a function to be organized shortly.
Surjewala said that he would give this award money of Rs1lakh to meritorious students of universities in the state.
Nine nominations were received for the award. These included MlAs Om Parkash Chautala, Sampat Singh, B.B. Batra, Ram Pal Majra, Bahadur Singh, Aftab Ahmed, Geeta Bhukkal, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Ram Kishan Gujjar.
State INlD chief Ashok Arora, however, criticised the selection saying no
criteria was followed.