IMPHAL, Jan 9: Eight Manipuri players who bagged medals at the 19th Common Wealth Games held in New Delhi and 16th Asian Games held in Guangzhou, China were given a warm reception today by Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and North East Sampark Cell in a function held at Guwahati.
A release of BJP Manipur said that the players from Manipur who were given warm reception by the BJP during its National Executive Meeting held in Guwahati were boxer Mayengbam Suranjoy, weight-lifter L. Monika,wushu player M. Bimoljit, weight-lifter Y. Renubala, wushu player W. Sandhyarani, kabadi player K. Sanahanbi, wight-lifter A. Sandhyarani and archer L. Bombayla.
A cash incentive of Rs 66,000 was presented by the BJP to boxer Suranjoy who bagged a gold medal in Common Wealth Games and a bronze medal in Asian Games. The gold medalist of Common Wealth Games weight-lifter Renubala, kabadi player Sanahanbi, wushu player W. Sandhyarani, weight-lifter Monika, archer Bombayla, weight-lifter A. Sandhyarani and wushu player Bimoljit were also presented cash incentives of Rs 51,000, Rs 34,000, Rs 25,000, Rs 25,000, Rs 34,000, Rs 15,000 and Rs 15,000 respectively.
A massive rally against corruption under the regime of UPA government was also organized by the BJP at Guwahati which was also attended by LK Advani, Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh along with NDA leaders Sarad Yadav,President of JD (U), Akali Dal and Shiv Sena.
