Wrestler returns home after told to remove ‘patka’

Amritsar | Friday | 10th August, 2018

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Meanwhile, it is learnt that Union sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore had assured to look into the matter.Meanwhile, SGPC president Gobind Singh Longowal said the Sikh wrestler had brought pride to the community. He said his coach also raised the issue with the organisers but that didn’t help much. Jashkawar’s father Salwinder Singh, who had also been an international wrestler, said players were allowed to wear headgears that didn’t harm the opponent during the bout. Jashkawar said his coach had taken up the matter with the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) so as to prevent such a situation in future. “May be, they didn’t understand or there was some miscommunication,” he said..