Political leaders from each Homes of Parliament on Sunday met one another on the cricket subject for a noble trigger.
The Rajya Sabha Chairman’s XI, captained by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, confronted off in opposition to the Lok Sabha Speaker’s XI, led by former Sports activities Minister Anurag Singh Thakur, within the TB consciousness match.(ANI)
The “TB Mukt Bharat Awareness Cricket Match,” a 20-over cricket match, was performed between Lok Sabha Speaker XI and Rajya Sabha Chairman XI, to advertise consciousness about tuberculosis and stress the significance of public well being in India’s highway to turn into a ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047.
BJP MP Anurag Thakur led the Lok Sabha Speaker XI crew, whereas Union Minister Kiren Rijiju was the skipper of Rajya Sabha Chairman XI.
“With the slogan of fitness…this event has been planned to invigorate individuals via sports. I believe everyone will be energetic. “Our mantras are ‘TB Free India’ and ‘Fit India Movement’,” Union minister Kiren Rijiju told ANI.
“With out health, you can’t serve your nation. “You need to be mentally and physically fit,” he added.
Lok Sabha Speaker XI’s skipper Anurag Thakur said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a aim of creating India tuberculosis-free by 2025, forward of the worldwide goal of 2030.
“If you see from 2015 till date, there has been a 38 per cent drop in TB-related deaths in India. There has been an 18 per cent drop in new cases. This number is around 8 per cent globally,” Thakur was quoted by ANI as saying.
“This means India is doing better than the rest of the world. But India is the most populated country. There is a treatment for it. The government provides free medicines and provides ₹1000 for it. The cases are tracked as well,” he added.
Thakur additional said that such occasions shall be performed in lots of states sooner or later, with MPs groups taking part in alongside MLAs, so that each public determine is knowledgeable and makes others conscious as effectively.
“We shall carry out the vow to create India TB-free…We shall accomplish Prime Minister Modi’s aim of making India TB-free…I appreciate how wonderfully all of the players performed. Hitting a tonne vs not hitting a tonne is a different story. The century is irrelevant; the sporting spirit driving the game is to create a TB-free India,” he stated.
Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha counseled the initiative, saying, “It is wonderful that MPs from both the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha have come together for such a noble cause.” I need to see extra efforts by which political leaders from all events come collectively to combat for important causes like this.”
The Lok Sabha Speaker XI defeated the Rajya Sabha Chairman XI by 73 runs. Anurag Thakur scored 111 runs.
Deepender Singh Hooda, a Congress MP, was named the match’s greatest bowler, whereas BJP MP Nishikant Dubey was named the most effective fielder.