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  • ‘Koi nhi hai takkar mein, kahan pade ho chakkar mein’: PM Modi’s mantra to Indian CWG-bound athletes

    Top Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday interacted with India’s Commonwealth Video games-bound athletes forward of the multi-sport match which begins from July 28 to August 8 in Birmingham, UK. A complete of 215 Indian athletes are collaborating in 141 occasions throughout 19 carrying disciplines.

    In a light-hearted interplay, PM Modi highlighted the combat, grit and backbone of the athletes as he prompt them to fail to remember expectancies and focal point simplest on giving their easiest on the CWG 2022. The Top Minister mentioned that you simply will have to have heard the outdated discussion,”Koi nhi hai takkar mein, kahan pade ho chakkar mein (No person can compete with you, why to fret about it). You need to lift this angle and play.”

    PM Modi additionally mentioned, “What you other folks must do, find out how to play. All of you’re knowledgeable on this. I will be able to simply say this- Play together with your middle, with your whole power and with none stress.”

    Amongst others, the PM spoke to 3000m steeplechaser Avinash Sable, weightlifter Achinta Sheuli, ladies’s hockey participant Salima Tete, bicycle owner David Beckham and para shot putter Sharmila right through a digital interactive consultation.

    Neatly acutely aware of their again tales, Modi requested how the athletes overcame the hurdles of their lives.

    “I joined Indian Military in 2012 and did standard responsibility for 4 years. After that I took up athletics. The exhausting military coaching and the cruel Siachen Glacier posting helped me so much right through competitions,” Sable mentioned.

    “In my match there are a large number of stumbling blocks, we need to jumps thru hurdles very similar to how military coaching like crawling.” The interplay used to be additionally attended by means of the likes of Olympic double medallist PV Sindhu, ladies’s hockey goalkeeper Savita Punia, Rio Video games bronze medallist wrestler Sakshi Malik, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly, boxers Shiva Thapa and Sumit, shuttlers Kidambi Srikanth and Lakshya Sen.

    -With PTI inputs