Chandigarh: Boxing champion Saweety Boora Sunday made a pitch for Congress chief Bhupinder Singh Hooda as Haryana chief minister whereas castigating the present BJP-led state authorities’s sports activities coverage at a Congress occasion meant to felicitate Boora in Hisar.
Boora, who hails from Hisar’s Ghirai village, final month gained gold on the Ladies’s World Boxing Championship 2023 held in New Delhi and have become world champion after defeating Wang Lina of China, 4–3, within the mild heavyweight class.
Addressing the gathering Sunday whereas on stage with Hooda, who was Haryana CM from 2005 to 2014, Boora mentioned: “At the moment, if I’m standing in entrance of you as a world champion, it’s all due to Hooda saab’s insurance policies.”
“As a toddler, I used to listen to about sportspersons from our space changing into deputy superintendent of police (DSP) or an inspector within the Haryana Police and getting a number of award cash from the federal government for profitable a medal in worldwide occasions. Hooda saab, who’s as we speak sitting amongst us, had made such insurance policies that impressed an entire era of individuals like me to take up sports activities,” she added.
Boora additional mentioned that ever since Hooda’s time period as CM had ended and “one other authorities” had come to energy, sports activities in Haryana had witnessed “a downslide”.
After Hooda, BJP’s Manohar Lal Khattar had gained energy within the 2014 Haryana state election and is presently serving his second time period within the state. He additionally holds cost of the state’s sports activities division.
“When Hooda was in energy, not solely sportspersons however all sections of society together with farmers have been completely happy. However now everyone seems to be despondent and sad with the (incumbent) authorities,” Boora asserted.
“Over these (final) 10 years, you should have seen how this different authorities has labored. You will need to have been fed up like us sportspersons. Maintain all this in thoughts. Vote Hooda saab to energy and don’t waste your vote this time,” Boora mentioned on the occasion.
Hooda, for his half, introduced that “Boora can be made a DSP in Haryana” if he was voted to energy. Haryana is due for Meeting elections in late 2024.
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On 30 March, CM Khattar had handed over supply letters for Group B posts (senior coach within the sports activities and youth affairs division), and cheques price Rs 40 lakh every to Boora and Nitu Ghanghas, Haryana’s different gold medallist on the boxing occasion.
Nonetheless, regardless of money and job provides to medal winners, the Khattar authorities’s sports activities coverage has lengthy been a punching bag for the opposition.
ThePrint had reported that the federal government has primarily confronted flak for not honouring medal-winning sportspersons with “good jobs” and cash the best way it was accomplished earlier.
Addressing the general public at Sunday’s occasion, the place different Congress leaders, sportspersons and coaches have been additionally in attendance, Hooda mentioned that when he was the Haryana CM, insurance policies had been formulated to encourage the youth in direction of sports activities.
“Beneath the ‘Padak Lao, Pad Pao’ (carry medals, get jobs) coverage, the Haryana authorities had felicitated over 750 sportspersons by giving them direct appointment to authorities posts. Beneath the sports activities coverage, gamers got appointments to increased posts like DSP. A 3 per cent quota was additionally allotted to sportspersons in Group C and Group D jobs in order that the youth taking part in sports activities don’t really feel insecure about their livelihood,” the previous CM mentioned, including that if the Congress was voted again to energy, it might carry again these insurance policies.
Hooda additional alleged that “the BJP-JJP (alliance) authorities led by CM Khattar has taken away the sportsperson’s proper to senior posts (of DSP) within the Haryana Police”.
“The federal government shouldn’t be sustaining sports activities stadiums that have been inbuilt each village through the Congress tenure. Because of our insurance policies, youth from Haryana have been bringing medals when these from Punjab have been being pushed to medicine,” he mentioned, including that “it appears that evidently this authorities desires to show Haryana’s youth into drug addicts and never sportspersons”.
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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