JAMMU, NOVEMBER 10 – Minister for Food, Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs and Tribal
Affairs, Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali today stressed on the need to encourage the
youth to take part in sports activities as they keep the body and mind fit.
The Minister said this while interacting with the members of the J&K
wrestling team who would leave from Jammu on November 13, 2017 to
participate in Senior National Championship to be held at Indore from November
15 to 18.
The Minister expressed great delight on the recent accomplishments of
the state’s youth at various national and international platforms across different
sporting events. He hoped that the wrestling team too outshines at the upcoming
championship and continue bringing laurels to the state thus inspiring the
youth to take up sports as a career choice.
The Minister was informed that 25 wrestlers have been selected to
participate in the championship including 20 males and 5 females through a
rigorous selection process at Bajrangi Akhara in Jammu.
MLA, Jammu East Rajesh Gupta, MLC Ashok Khajuria and other dignitaries
were present on the occasion.
The wrestlers who are going to participate in the championship include
Ajeet Malhotra ,Mukesh Kumar Bhushan Mehra (65 kg), Sukhvinder Singh (70 kg),
Muneer Ahmad (74 kg), Pardeep Kumar (79 kg), Bahadur Khan (92 kg), Mohammad Asif
(97 kg), Udhay Sharma (86 kg), Ishaq Ahmad (130 kg), Gaurav Kumar (55 kg), Amit
Manhas (60 kg), Sunny Sharma (63 kg), Rajinder Singh (67 kg), Ranjeet Singh 72
kg), Rajesh Sharma (77 kg), Roshan Lal (97 kg), Shakeel Khan (82 kg), Javeed
Khan (87 kg), Salinder Singh (125 kg), Sakshi Dogra (48 kg), Kanchan Devi (53
kg), Reenu (58 kg), Drishti (55 kg) and Jaspreet Kour (68 kg).
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