**Bhubaneswar:** After being conferred with the ‘Best Legislator Award’ for the year 2015 by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today, BJD’s Athagarh MLA Ranendra Pratap Swain donated his prize money to Kerala Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF).
The Odisha CM today felicitated MLAs with ‘Pandit Nilakantha Samman’, ‘Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Samman’ and ‘Utkalmani Gopabandhu Samman’ for their contributions to enrich country’s parliamentary democracy and conferred the ‘Best Legislator Awards’ from the years 2009 to 2016.
Swain received the ‘Pandit Nilakantha Samman’ and Rs 1 lakh as incentive, which he donated to Kerala CMDRF for providing relief to the flood-ravaged State.
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