{"id":207,"date":"2021-08-06T13:45:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=133602"},"modified":"2021-08-06T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:15:47","slug":"rajiv-gandhi-khel-ratna-award-now-renamed-to-major-dhyan-chand-khel-ratna-award-announces-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/rajiv-gandhi-khel-ratna-award-now-renamed-to-major-dhyan-chand-khel-ratna-award-announces-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award now renamed to Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award announces PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Prime Minister has officially announced the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award to be renamed after the legendary hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister seemed very keen on both the Indian men\u2019s and women\u2019s hockey teams performance in the Tokyo Olympics. A video of Prime Minister Modi went viral as he had called the men\u2019s hockey team who have just secured the bronze medal for Indian beating Germany 5-4 in a thrilling encounter for third place.<\/p>\n<p>Moments after his tweets congratulating the women\u2019s hockey team earlier today on their inspirational performance in the Olympics he had this to say in another tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have been getting many requests from citizens across India to name the Khel Ratna Award after Major Dhyan Chand. I thank them for their views. <\/p>\n<p>Respecting their sentiment,  the Khel Ratna Award will hereby be called the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award! <\/p>\n<p>Jai Hind! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zbStlMNHdq\">pic.twitter.com\/zbStlMNHdq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1423538297842769921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajor Dhyan Chand was among India\u2019s foremost sportspersons who brought honour and pride for India. It is fitting that our nation\u2019s highest sporting honour will be named after him,\u201d twitted the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Khel Ratna Award is the highest sporting honour in the country. The award was named after the former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi who served the office from 1984 to 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Khel Ratna is awarded annually to encourage sportsmen and sportswomen for their achievements in their respected field and further successes representing their country at the biggest stages in the sporting world. A twelve-member selection committee is constituted by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports who decides the winners in each discipline. The honour of the Khel Ratna comprises a medal, a certificate and a cash prize to the individual.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the past recipients of the prestigious award have included MS Dhoni, Virat Kolhi, Sania Mirza, Vishwanath Anand, Sardar Singh, Rani Rampal, Dhanraj Pillay and Sachin Tendulkar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highest honour in sports for India now has a new name after the late great Hockey player Major Dhyan Chand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":23350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2387,281,1915,2177,71,2012,1201],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-cheer4india","tag-hockey","tag-indian-hockey-team","tag-khel-ratna-award","tag-narendra-modi","tag-rajiv-gandhi-khel-ratna-award","tag-team-india"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}