Derek O’Brien

Some Lesser Known Facts About Derek O’Brien

• Derek O’Brien is an Indian politician and quiz master who is famous for conducting school level quiz competitions throughout the world.

  

• Derek O’Brien faced sexual molestation when he boarded a crowded bus on his way back home after his tennis practice at the age of 13. ^[10]NDTV

• When Brien was not able to perform well in the eighth standard due to mid-year school change as a result of his father’s transfer from Delhi to Kolkata, her mother celebrated with family over lunch to motivate him and keep his spirits high.

• Derek O’Brien’s grandfather, “Amos O’Brien,” was the first person from his community to serve as the head of the English department at Banaras Hindu University.

• Brien learned about quiz hosting and conducting from his father, Neil O’Brien, who hosted India’s first well organised quiz in 1967 at Kolkata.

  

• O’Brien earned the Indian Television Academy Award for Best Host three times in a row from 2003 to 2005.

• He organised quizzes in many countries during his career as a quiz master such as Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Srilanka, Singapore, Bangladesh, Oman, and the United States.

  

• After a successful career as a quiz master, O’Brien joined the Trinamool Congress in 2004, which was out of power back then.

  

• Despite the fact that Derek O’Brien is a well-known leader of the Trinamool Congress, his brother Barry O’Brien is now associated with the BJP.

  

• Derek O’Brien is also a very fine writer, his novel “Inside Parliament” is one of the best selling novels.

  

• When questioned about his unruly behaviour and creating chaos in parliament, Derek O’Brien answered that despite the repeated request of many Rajya Sabha members, the resolution for “Farm Bills 2020” was not put to vote. As per his quote,
  

  The chair has to grant you that right, But today, unbelievably, the right was taken away from the opposition. That is a serious breach of parliamentary rules and parliamentary democracy. This is like taking the parliamentary democracy, shoving a knife inside it and killing it. And so, we protested.”