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August 30th, 2008, 01:26 PM
Olympic heroes' names missing in invitation
30 Aug 2008, 0847 hrs IST,PTI
BHIWANI: The names of seven Beijing Olympians including shooter Abhinav Bindra, who are to be honoured by the Haryana government at a function on August 30, are missing from the invitation card.
The invitation, however, has the names of 13 others including chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda as the chief guest, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi as guest of honour and Haryana sports minister Kiran Chaudhary who would preside over the function.
The name of Rohtak MP Deepinder Hooda, who is also the son of chief minister, and six ruling party MLAs has been mentioned.
The invitation has been issued by the Sports and Youth Welfare Department of Haryana in the name of three bureaucrats TL Sathyaprakash, deputy commissioner, OP Singh, director , sports and Sarban Singh, commissioner and secretary, Sports and Youth Welfare Department.
But the invitation for the public reception in honour of heroes of Beijing Olympics, 2008 makes no mention of those to be honoured at the state level function.
The state government had earlier announced that besides gold medalist Bindra and Bhiwani boxer Vijender Kumar, who won the first bronze medal for India in the event, two other boxers from the state, quarter-finalists Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar would also be honoured with cash rewards.
Delhi's Sushil Kumar, who won bronze in wrestling, and sportspersons Saina Nehwal and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt would also be honoured with cash reward varying between Rs 25 lakh and Rs 50 lakh.
Boxing coach at Bhiwani Jagdish Singh would also be showered with a cash award of Rs 25 lakh for promoting the game
30 Aug 2008, 0847 hrs IST,PTI
BHIWANI: The names of seven Beijing Olympians including shooter Abhinav Bindra, who are to be honoured by the Haryana government at a function on August 30, are missing from the invitation card.
The invitation, however, has the names of 13 others including chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda as the chief guest, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi as guest of honour and Haryana sports minister Kiran Chaudhary who would preside over the function.
The name of Rohtak MP Deepinder Hooda, who is also the son of chief minister, and six ruling party MLAs has been mentioned.
The invitation has been issued by the Sports and Youth Welfare Department of Haryana in the name of three bureaucrats TL Sathyaprakash, deputy commissioner, OP Singh, director , sports and Sarban Singh, commissioner and secretary, Sports and Youth Welfare Department.
But the invitation for the public reception in honour of heroes of Beijing Olympics, 2008 makes no mention of those to be honoured at the state level function.
The state government had earlier announced that besides gold medalist Bindra and Bhiwani boxer Vijender Kumar, who won the first bronze medal for India in the event, two other boxers from the state, quarter-finalists Akhil Kumar and Jitender Kumar would also be honoured with cash rewards.
Delhi's Sushil Kumar, who won bronze in wrestling, and sportspersons Saina Nehwal and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt would also be honoured with cash reward varying between Rs 25 lakh and Rs 50 lakh.
Boxing coach at Bhiwani Jagdish Singh would also be showered with a cash award of Rs 25 lakh for promoting the game