NEW DELHI: Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Narinder Batra feels that the Sports Ministry should permit the oldsters of star shuttlers PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal to accompany them at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
"I don't know why the sports ministry is not agreeing to clear the parents of Sindhu and Saina to accompany them at the CWG. The government is not going to bear their expenses," Batra said on the sidelines of the sending-off ceremony of India's CWG contingent.
"These shuttlers are our big sporting stars now and we should be supporting them. If a Virat Kohli or a Sachin Tendulkar had wanted to do the same as Sindhu and Saina are requesting now, will they (ministry) say no to them also?"
Reports emerged as of late that Saina's father Harvir Singh and Sindhu's mother Vijaya Pursala have been going to Gold Coast City on the executive's expense after their names figured in the IOA record of officials.
However, a letter written by means of the Badminton Association of India (BAI) to the IOA, a copy of which is with PTI, doesn't mention their names any place.
BAI as of late said it's unfair to suggest that the oldsters of Saina and Sindhu are going to the Commonwealth Games as part of the Indian contingent.
"It is [an] absolutely false report. There is no truth in it and I think it is unfair on these two shuttlers, who bring laurels to the country," BAI secretary Anup Narang informed PTI.
When Sindhu's father PV Ramana was contacted, he said: "I have travelled with Sindhu to many tournaments and always with my own money. This time also we had requested BAI to allow Vijaya to travel on [our] own money. So it hurts to know that some people are spreading these false news."
Saina's father was clueless about the construction and said he had never taken any undue good thing about his place and that every one his bills are borne by means of his daughter.
"I'm going on my own. I know a professor at Gold Coast. So I will go to watch the Games as a spectator and I am not part of the contingent. Even when I went to Rio Games, I stayed in rented accommodation. So, I don't know from where these reports are coming. It is unfortunate," Harvir Singh said.
London Olympics bronze medallist Saina and Rio Games silver medal winner Sindhu are prime candidates to win the coveted gold at the Commonwealth Games.
"I don't know why the sports ministry is not agreeing to clear the parents of Sindhu and Saina to accompany them at the CWG. The government is not going to bear their expenses," Batra said on the sidelines of the sending-off ceremony of India's CWG contingent.
"These shuttlers are our big sporting stars now and we should be supporting them. If a Virat Kohli or a Sachin Tendulkar had wanted to do the same as Sindhu and Saina are requesting now, will they (ministry) say no to them also?"
Reports emerged as of late that Saina's father Harvir Singh and Sindhu's mother Vijaya Pursala have been going to Gold Coast City on the executive's expense after their names figured in the IOA record of officials.
However, a letter written by means of the Badminton Association of India (BAI) to the IOA, a copy of which is with PTI, doesn't mention their names any place.
BAI as of late said it's unfair to suggest that the oldsters of Saina and Sindhu are going to the Commonwealth Games as part of the Indian contingent.
"It is [an] absolutely false report. There is no truth in it and I think it is unfair on these two shuttlers, who bring laurels to the country," BAI secretary Anup Narang informed PTI.
When Sindhu's father PV Ramana was contacted, he said: "I have travelled with Sindhu to many tournaments and always with my own money. This time also we had requested BAI to allow Vijaya to travel on [our] own money. So it hurts to know that some people are spreading these false news."
Saina's father was clueless about the construction and said he had never taken any undue good thing about his place and that every one his bills are borne by means of his daughter.
"I'm going on my own. I know a professor at Gold Coast. So I will go to watch the Games as a spectator and I am not part of the contingent. Even when I went to Rio Games, I stayed in rented accommodation. So, I don't know from where these reports are coming. It is unfortunate," Harvir Singh said.
London Olympics bronze medallist Saina and Rio Games silver medal winner Sindhu are prime candidates to win the coveted gold at the Commonwealth Games.
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