Rajasthan Forum felicitates athletes

Sunday, Oct 26, Jaipur: Today morning I hosted a function under the banner of Rajasthan Forum to felicitate the recent sports awardees in association with ITC Rajputana Hotel.

The function was held at the hotel.

Six athletes who won medals at the recently concluded 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, were felicitated at the function. The athletes felicitated were Navneet Gautam (member of gold winning men’s kabaddi team), Sumitra Sharma (member of gold winning women’s kabaddi team), Rajat Chauhan (archery team gold), Manju Bala Mann (silver medal winner hammer throw), Bajrang Lal Takhar (bronze medal winner rowing team). Shagun Chowdhary (bronze in team trap shooting), who was out of city, could not be present.

Another athlete Devendra Jhajaria, who won silver in javelin at the para Asian Games, was represented by his father. I may mention that Manju Bala and Devendra are from Churu district where my hometown is located.

Grammy Award winner, Vishwamohan Bhatt, who is the chairman of Rajasthan Forum, participated in felicitating the athletes at the event.

Many eminent citizens of Jaipur were present on the occasion. I feel that the Rajasthan government should come forward with incentives to the athletes to encourage more youngsters to come forward and make India proud by winning medals.

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