Vinesh Phogat would have opted for an RS 4 species award is believing for its performance by the Paris Olympic Games concerning the offers of residential land or employment by Group A government.
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The struggle between the wrestler who has become a leader in Congress Vinesh Phogat and the Haryana BJP government is over after the 30 -year -old woman opted for the RS 4 Prize for her performance at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Phogat reached the final of the 50 kg wrestling category at the Paris Games, but was then disqualified.
However, Haryana’s chief minister Nayab Singh Saini said Phogat would be treated as a silver medalist and that the government would reward her in the same way.
Phogat obtains a cash reward for the release of the Olympic Games
Phogat has received the possibility of a cash reward, a residential plot or a group employment in group. She chose the RS 4 Prize in money as a reward. The most decorated wrestler’s reward in India will be organized under the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP).
It should be noted that if the Haryana government has promised him the award, he has not been released so far, which has prompted Vinesh to raise the issue during the budget session of the Haryana Assembly.
Now Julana deputy on a congress ticket, Phogat said: “This is not money. It is respect.”
Immediately after Phogat raised the case, the Haryana government has given the price.
The Haryana government is known for its rich awards to athletes. The state government offers an RS 6 reward believes in the Olympic gold medalists, RS 4 drills silver medalists and RS 2.5 crosses with bronze medalists.
In August 2024, at the Paris Olympic Games, Vinesh Phogat, aged 29, entered history by becoming the first Indian wrestler to reach an Olympic final. However, its dream race ended with sorrow when it was disqualified just before the fight of the gold medal for having exceeded the weight limit of 50 kg of 100 grams – a technical violation but strict under the united global control regulations.
Although disqualification was on procedural reasons, he quickly took a political tone. Many connected it to the leading role of Phogat in the event in 2023 alongside other wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik. The trio had interrupted their training to demand justice, accusing the former president of the Federation of Wrestling of India, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, of wrestlers of sexual harassment.
While the news of his disqualification spread, the chief minister of Haryana, Saini, expressed his support for Phogat in an article on X, calling “the pride of Haryana”.
