Wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya Wrote A Letter To The Sports Minister Anurag Thakur Said I Should Be Given Arjuna Award

In place of Arjuna Award to Olympic medalists, the matter of giving Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, the country’s highest sporting honor, has caught up. Wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya, who won a silver medal in Tokyo Olympics, has written an angry letter to Sports Minister Anurag Thakur, requesting him to be given the Arjuna Award. Ravi has even written to the Sports Minister that he feels that he has lost the Arjuna Award by winning an Olympic medal. Disappointed at not becoming Arjun, Ravi has even written that if this continues, no player will win an Olympic medal in the near future without getting the Arjuna Award. He has requested the Sports Minister that the award he deserves should be given to him first. If he is given the Khel Ratna along with Arjuna, he has no objection to it.

Ravi had asked for the Arjuna Award on September 13 itself.

The special thing is that Ravi Dahiya had applied for the Arjuna Award even before getting the Olympic medal. After winning the Olympic medal, on September 13, he wrote a letter to the Sports Ministry requesting that he be given the Arjuna Award first. But he regrets that he was overlooked with this award. Ravi wrote to the Sports Minister that he had cited the example of Rio Olympic medalist Sakshi Malik. He did not get the Arjuna Award because he had been given the Khel Ratna. Nowhere in the government guidelines it is written that an Olympic medalist will not get the Arjuna Award. He has written that it is every sportsman’s dream to win the Arjuna Award.

Sakshi-Meera have also raised the issue

Apart from Ravi Dahiya, Tokyo Paralympic gold winner Sumit Antil and shooter Avani Lekhara also expressed their desire to be given Arjuna Award instead of Khel Ratna. Last year, both Olympic medalists Sakshi Malik and Mirabai Chanu had applied for the Arjuna Award despite becoming Khel Ratna, but the committee rejected both of them saying that when the country’s highest sporting honor has been awarded. If so, how can a prize of lesser seniority be given. This time too, there was a lot of discussion about this issue in the award committee, but in the end the decision was taken to give the Khel Ratna.

In place of Arjuna Award to Olympic medalists, the matter of giving Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna, the country’s highest sporting honor, has caught up. Wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya, who won a silver medal in Tokyo Olympics, has written an angry letter to Sports Minister Anurag Thakur, requesting him to be given the Arjuna Award. Ravi has even written to the Sports Minister that he feels that he has lost the Arjuna Award by winning an Olympic medal. Disappointed at not becoming Arjun, Ravi has even written that if this continues, no player will win an Olympic medal in the near future without getting the Arjuna Award. He has requested the Sports Minister that the award he deserves should be given to him first. If he is given the Khel Ratna along with Arjuna, he has no objection to it.

Ravi had asked for the Arjuna Award on September 13 itself.

The special thing is that Ravi Dahiya had applied for the Arjuna Award even before getting the Olympic medal. After winning the Olympic medal, on September 13, he wrote a letter to the Sports Ministry requesting that he be given the Arjuna Award first. But he regrets that he was overlooked with this award. Ravi wrote to the Sports Minister that he had cited the example of Rio Olympic medalist Sakshi Malik. He did not get the Arjuna Award because he had been given the Khel Ratna. Nowhere in the government guidelines it is written that an Olympic medalist will not get the Arjuna Award. He has written that it is every sportsman’s dream to win the Arjuna Award.

Sakshi-Meera have also raised the issue

Apart from Ravi Dahiya, Tokyo Paralympic gold winner Sumit Antil and shooter Avani Lekhara also expressed their desire to be given Arjuna Award instead of Khel Ratna. Last year, both Olympic medalists Sakshi Malik and Mirabai Chanu had applied for the Arjuna Award despite becoming Khel Ratna, but the committee rejected both of them saying that when the country’s highest sporting honor has been awarded. If so, how can a prize of lesser seniority be given. This time too, there was a lot of discussion about this issue in the award committee, but in the end the decision was taken to give the Khel Ratna.