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Parliamentarians in a tug-of-war with mediapersons during a sports meet in New Delhi on Saturday. Seen in action (from right) are Ghulam Nabi Azad, Naveen Jindal and Oscar Fernandes. The media team won the event. — Photo: Anu Pushkarna
NEW DELHI, DEC. 18. Members of Parliament and journalists shared honours at the sports meet organised here today with the politicians walking away with the trophy in kabaddi and scribes picking up the top honours in tug-of-war. Today's sports meet at National Stadium was the second in a series of such events that the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry is planning for weekends whenever Parliament is in session. In kabaddi, the MPs outplayed journalists by a huge margin, beating them 61-29. Journalists evened out the competition in tug-of-war; winning two of the total three tugs. In between, a friendly kabaddi match was played in which journalists snatched a victory from the MPs by two points. The Rajya Sabha member and veteran wrestler, Dara Singh, was the referee.The Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Union Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation, Oscar Fernandes, and the Union Minister of State for Coal, Dasari Narayan Rao participated in the meet. Among the MPs who took part were Bijendra Singh, Mohan Rawale, Kirip Chaliha, K. S. Manoj, Kuldeep Bishnoi, Naveen Jindal, Jitin Prasada and Pawan Bansal. Besides correspondents, officials of Parliament Secretariat also turned up.
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