From taking loans from his associates and kinfolk to promoting his automobile as soon as to assist his daughter Nitu Ghanghas’ boxing ambitions, Jai Bhagwan had left no stone unturned to maintain his and her daughter’s desires alive.
The Dhanana village resident, who works as a invoice messenger in Haryana Vidhan Sabha and is at present dealing with a departmental inquiry over his steady absence from job, was all ecstatic on Sunday afternoon as his daughter Nitu grew to become the Commonwealth Games champion with a unanimous 5-0 verdict over England’s Demie Jade Resztan within the ladies’s 48 kg boxing closing in Birmingham.
“Nitu toh desh ki shaan ban gayi. Yeh gold medal toh asli sona hai hamare liye (Nitu has turn out to be the satisfaction of the entire nation. This gold medal is greater than precise gold for us). In 2016, I had bought our automobile to assist her coaching for the world youth championship and have taken loans from associates and financial institution to assist her coaching as I’m not getting wage resulting from my absence at job. But to see her turn out to be the Commonwealth Games champion is greater than something for me. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated Nitu. What else can a father ask for?” says an emotional Jai Bhagwan whereas chatting with The Indian Express.
Gold medalist India’s Nitu Ghanghas poses for pictures in the course of the presentation ceremony of the ladies’s over 45-48kg (Minimumweight) boxing occasion, on the Commonwealth Games 2022. (PTI)
The Haryana teenager together with good friend Sakshi Chaudhary used to journey to Bhiwani Boxing Club to coach below Jagdish Singh, a coach who has educated the likes of 2008 Olympics bronze medalist Vijender Singh.
When she grew to become the youth nationwide bronze medallist in 2016, Bhagwan skipped workplace to assist Nitu’s coaching for the 2017 World Youth Championships and took mortgage from the village financial institution to maintain issues going.
When Nitu gained two successive world youth championship titles in 2017 and 2018 in Guwahati and Budapest respectively, the household needed to wait for 2 lengthy agonising years to get the much-needed money awards by the Haryana authorities, because of the change in sports activities coverage.
“My husband has only thought about Nitu and her boxing dreams. Sometimes, I also wondered what he would get from this. But he used to say that he wants to see Nitu win a medal for India. I came to know much later that he was not getting his salary as he was skipping office in Chandigarh. Even at present, we are surviving without his salary. It was from Nitu’s cash award that we paid the fee of our second daughter’s medical studies in Shimla. Also, the expenses of our younger son’s shooting equipment for participating in competitions were paid from Nitu’s money,” says mom Mukesh.
“Mere father ne mujhe itna support kia mujhe yahan tak lane main toh medal main unko aur pure desh ko dedicate karna chahiti hun (My father has always supported me, helped me reach here, come what may. I dedicate this medal to him and the whole country),” Nitu stated whereas speaking to The Indian Express from Birmingham.
At the Bhiwani Boxing Club additionally, the environment was euphoric. Coach Jagdish Singh was on cloud 9 and was seen distributing sweets to the trainees in all pleasure.
With greater than 50 women and 100 boys coaching on the academy, Jagdish Singh is happy with Nitu’s feat and has now set his sights on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Haryana boxer Nitu Ghanghas household and kinfolk have fun her CWG gold medal at their village Dhanana close to Bhiwani on Sunday.
“She had won the world youth title twice, but this gold medal at the Commonwealth Games will give a major boost to her career. Winning at the senior level will motivate her to achieve more in the coming years. Her CWG medal will be shown to the trainees and her medal-winning moment will be displayed along with photos of other international boxers of our academy,” stated Jagdish Singh.
Mother Mukesh has already deliberate a menu for her daughter’s welcome get together.
“Nitu’s father all the time makes positive that she has contemporary ‘desi ghee ka churma’ at any time when she is on the nationwide camp. He will journey all the best way to the camp and provides it to her. This time additionally when she returns from Birmingham, I’m positive she’s going to ask for her favourite ‘churma’. We plan to have fun her return with that,” stated Mukesh.
Nitu is a former pupil of Guru Gobind Singh College for Women at Sector 26 in Chandigarh. She attended courses when she was not within the nationwide camp. The school principal, Dr Jatinder Kaur, and the sports activities trainer, Dr Amolak Singh Bhullar, congratulated her on her large achievement.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
