With Haryana on the edge due to Jat agitation, Rio paralympic medallist Deepa Malik today appealed to the Jat community to put forth their demands in a peaceful manner so as not to sully their image.
With Haryana on the edge due to Jat agitation, Rio paralympic medallist Deepa Malik today appealed to the Jat community to put forth their demands in a peaceful manner so as not to sully their image.
Recalling the unfortunate incidents which occurred last year as violence broke out during the Jat stir claiming 30 lives, Malik, a Jat herself said, "The thing you are fighting for, if it brings bad name to its very identity, then such a movement goes in a negative way."
"I feel in a democratic country everyone has the right to put forward their views. My only appeal to everybody in this movement is that look at our sportspersons and take things in a sportsman's spirit.
"We also fight for whatever we want in the play field, but with a feeling of brotherhood and with a feeling of sportsman spirit. Whatever you have to say, please adopt peaceful kind of way to do it," Malik, who hails from Haryana, said here.
Malik had won a silver medal in the women's shot put event at the Paralympics and was felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a function held at Gurugram in November last year with a cash award of Rs 4 crore.
Malik, who made the entire country proud with her rare feat, said, "when one talks of things in a peaceful and and non-violent manner, when one keeps point of view in a peaceful manner, it holds more weight."
"Being a Jat myself, its an appeal lets put forward everything in a peaceful manner so that we do not destroy the very significance and image we are standing for," Malik told
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