Chandigarh, Aug 9 (IANS) Former Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Punjab Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday urged the Centre and the state governments "to fully acknowledge and honour the contribution of each and every player, in addition to the medal winners, who represented the country at the Tokyo Olympics".
In a statement here, Badal said the governments must not make the mistake of playing to the gallery and hogging limelight by simply focusing on the medal winners alone.
"Our medal winners fully deserve all the credit and praise being showered upon them by governments and other countrymen. But in our enthusiasm to the champions, we must not overlook or be indifferent to the contribution of players who fought bravely.
"Many of them missed winning medals narrowly but their display was as brilliant and brave as of anyone else in the world. We must salute ou medal winners but so must we stand up to acknowledge the other bravehearts who fought to bring laurels to the country."
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President, said: "our hockey girls played like true world champions".
We have decided to seek an appointment with Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi and we will apprise her of our feelings. We are told that the party has decided to concentrate only on those below the age of 50.
Former Pakistani military dictator Pervez Musharraf has admitted that the Pakistan state not only gave a "hero's welcome" to terrorists like Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed but also trained and supported them to fight against India in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said that it has arrested former Relkigare Health Enterprises Ltd promoters Malvinder Singh and Sunil Godhwani in connection with its probe into a money laundering case.
While an air pollution emergency is playing out in Delhi NCR, stubble burning in Punjab is likely to abate by the end of the month as wheat sowing has already covered 60 per cent of the area.
After a week of birthday celebrations with actress-wife Anushka Sharma, crickter-husband Virat Kohli is back on the field, but with little youngsters playing ‘gully’ cricket in Indore.
