NEW DELHI: Newly appointed Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has appealed to all sports federations to consider sportspersons as most important.
"Let's keep sportsmen as most important people, everything else will fall into place later," he told ANI. Singh added that the "best of the opportunities" will be provided to all sportspersons in their endeavour to make India a strong sporting nation.
The 47-year-old Athens Olympics silver medallist was made the sports minister in place of Vijay Goel in a major reshuffle by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the weekend. Rathore said his focus would be on winning medals at every forum. "Win medals at all levels -- village level or at the Olympic level. Sports is a state subject so we will work together with the state departments to provide, like I said, best of the opportunities for the sportspersons," Rathore told reporters. "The education for life happens in sports grounds and that's where we come in. The sports ministry and the states will provide the right opportunities for our youth, the future of this country, to make themselves physically and mentally more stronger," he added.
Rathore joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2013 and was sworn in as minister of state for information and broadcasting when the Modi government came to power in May 2014.
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