NLUO British Parliamentary Debate concludes

Bhubaneswar: The two-day event of the NLUO British Parliamentary Debate concluded on Sunday. In the fourth edition of the NLUO British around 150 students participated from country’s premier law and commerce colleges.

The students were divided into 32 teams. They all are given topics of debate before 15 minutes, where they can speak 7 minutes.

Hidayatullah National Law University, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, St Xavier’s College Kolkata and National University of Juridical Sciences Kolkata made their way to the final of the tournament.

‘THBT the Indian liberals and anti-BJP parties should not employ a doomsday rhetoric around Narendra Modi’s re-election in 2019’, was the topic for the finalist.

After the end of the final round, IIT Kharagpur and NUJS emerged as winners.  Besides, Best Speaker award was given to Jalaj Panday, Best Adjudicator to Priyansh Khandelwal and Best Novice team to NITR.

The prize was distributed by NLUO vice chancellor Prof. (Dr.) Srikrishna Deva Rao and Akash Kumar. The winners were awarded a trophy along with Rs 1.15 lakh cash prize.

Anusuiya Radhika, Varun Gakhar, Osho Chhel and Mihir Deshmukh were theadjudicators in the final.