Surprised Breaking On #BharatRatna:
The Manmohan Singh-led UPA government made the last minute, but vital, change to ignore hockey wizard Dhyan Chand for the Bharat Ratna by replacing the hockey great's candidature with that of cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, who retired from Test cricket last year.
The dishonour meted out to Chand is visible in the mail trail, accessed by Headlines Today, involving the Prime Minister's Office which show how the government snubbed Dhyan Chand to favour Sachin, no doubt two greats.
On July 16 last year, then Sports Minister Jitendra Singh recommended the hockey legend's name for the Bharat Ratna which was acknowledged by former PM Manmohan Singh nine days later. The internal PMO note reveals Dhyan Chand's name was making rounds for the award till early August 2013. This was possible due to an amendment in 2011 to the law which made sportspersons eligible for the country's highest honour.
Sachin Tendulkar receives the
Singh approved eminent scientist CNR Rao for the award
on October 24. But all of a sudden on November 14, the PMO asked the
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to send the bio-data of Sachin
Tendulkar and that too within a day. The ministry submitted it the same
day.The UPA government's desperation can be gauged by the fact
that it was able to get the approval for Rao and Tendulkar for the
Bharat Ratna on the same day from the Election Commission. Incidentally,
it was the last day of Sachin's cricketing career.
Reacting to the controversial switch, Dhyan Chand's son Ashok Kumar, himself an accomplished hockey player, said, "It is a matter of great disappointment for crores of Indians that Dhyan Chand's name was excluded and Sachin Tendulkar's name was brought forward. It was a political game played against Major Dhyan Chand."
Considered the greatest ever hockey player, Dhyan Chand helped India win three Olympic golds in the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympics.
Speaking on the issue, Congress MP and BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla sought to distance the two greats. "No comparison should be done between Sachin Tendulkar and Major Dhyan Chand," he said.
नई दिल्ली:
सचिन तेंदुलकर को जब भारत रत्न से नवाजा गया था तब भी विवाद हुआ था कि
क्यों इस सम्मान के लिए हॉकी के जादूगर कहे जाने वाले ध्यानचंद को दरकिनार
किया गया। क्या मनमोहन सिंह ने राजनीतिक फायदे के लिए सचिन को देश का सबसे
बड़ा सम्मान देने का फैसला किया था? इस पूरे मामले में एक बड़ा खुलासा हुआ
है। जब सचिन को भारत रत्न दिया जा रहा था तब कई दिग्गजों ने यह सवाल उठाया
था कि देश के सबसे बड़े सम्मान के लिए खिलाड़ी के तौर पर ध्यानचंद इसके
पहले अधिकारी हैं।
मिले दस्तावेजों से साफ पता चलता है कि मेजर ध्यानचंद और प्रोफैसर सी.एन.आर. राव के नामों पर सहमति बन जाने के बाद अचानक तेंदुलकर का नाम भारत रत्न के लिए भेजा गया और तब भेजा गया जब देश में विधानसभा के चुनाव होने वाले थे। यानी तेंदुलकर को भारत रत्न देने का फैसला अचानक लिया गया। सवाल उठता है कि आखिर किसके दबाव में सचिन को देश का सबसे बड़ा सम्मान दिया गया और मेजर ध्यानचंद को दरकिनार कर उन्हें सम्मान देने की जल्दबाजी क्यों की गई?
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-Not Sachin Tendulkar, Dhyanchand was the first choice for Bharat Ratna
-UPA's PMO swapped Dhyan Chand with Sachin Tendulkar for Bharat Ratna
..तेंदुलकर को क्यों मिला भारत रत्न?
New Delhi, July 30, 2014 |
Dhyan Chand
The Manmohan Singh-led UPA government made the last minute, but vital, change to ignore hockey wizard Dhyan Chand for the Bharat Ratna by replacing the hockey great's candidature with that of cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, who retired from Test cricket last year.
The dishonour meted out to Chand is visible in the mail trail, accessed by Headlines Today, involving the Prime Minister's Office which show how the government snubbed Dhyan Chand to favour Sachin, no doubt two greats.
On July 16 last year, then Sports Minister Jitendra Singh recommended the hockey legend's name for the Bharat Ratna which was acknowledged by former PM Manmohan Singh nine days later. The internal PMO note reveals Dhyan Chand's name was making rounds for the award till early August 2013. This was possible due to an amendment in 2011 to the law which made sportspersons eligible for the country's highest honour.
Sachin Tendulkar receives the
Bharat Ratna award from
President Pranab
Mukherjee
at Rashtrapati Bhavan in
New Delhi February 4, 2014. Reuters
Photo
Reacting to the controversial switch, Dhyan Chand's son Ashok Kumar, himself an accomplished hockey player, said, "It is a matter of great disappointment for crores of Indians that Dhyan Chand's name was excluded and Sachin Tendulkar's name was brought forward. It was a political game played against Major Dhyan Chand."
Considered the greatest ever hockey player, Dhyan Chand helped India win three Olympic golds in the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympics.
Speaking on the issue, Congress MP and BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla sought to distance the two greats. "No comparison should be done between Sachin Tendulkar and Major Dhyan Chand," he said.
..तेंदुलकर को क्यों मिला भारत रत्न?
मिले दस्तावेजों से साफ पता चलता है कि मेजर ध्यानचंद और प्रोफैसर सी.एन.आर. राव के नामों पर सहमति बन जाने के बाद अचानक तेंदुलकर का नाम भारत रत्न के लिए भेजा गया और तब भेजा गया जब देश में विधानसभा के चुनाव होने वाले थे। यानी तेंदुलकर को भारत रत्न देने का फैसला अचानक लिया गया। सवाल उठता है कि आखिर किसके दबाव में सचिन को देश का सबसे बड़ा सम्मान दिया गया और मेजर ध्यानचंद को दरकिनार कर उन्हें सम्मान देने की जल्दबाजी क्यों की गई?
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