Lovlina Borgohain’s gloves ahead of Neeraj Chopra’s javelin as e-auction of Olympic gifts to PM Narendra Modi begins | Off the field News – Times of India
The items attracting the highest bids were those gifted recently to the PM by Olympic champions. Of the 11 bids for woman pugilist Lovlina Borgohain’s Olympic bronze medal-winning pair of gloves, the highest was worth Rs 1.92 crore till Friday evening against the base price of Rs 80 lakh. Next highest bid was for Neeraj Chopra’s gold medal-winning javelin — Rs 1.55 crore against the base price of Rs 1 crore.
Paralympic gold medal winner and world record-holder Sumit Antil’s javelin bid, also with a base price of Rs 1 crore, wasn’t far behind Chopra’s with the highest of the seven bids being at Rs 1,00,08,000. Next highest bid was worth Rs 1,00,00,100 for women’s hockey captain Rani Rampal’s stick against the base price of Rs 80-lakh. The Indian women’s hockey team had finished fourth at Tokyo 2020.
The proceeds of the auction will go to “Namami Gange” project.
(Tokyo 2020 gold medallist Neeraj Chopra gifted his javelin to PM Modi as an Olympic memento)
The day was also celebrated by BJP and the PM’s followers as “Seva Samarpan” — 20 years of good governance — including Modi’s tenure as Gujarat CM. Sources said the entire focus is on “Amrut Prayas”, entailing initiatives to make the country “self reliant”.
BJP president JP Nadda launched a campaign under which trained cadres were roped in to reach vaccination centres and ensure that the first dose of vaccine is given to maximum possible people.
The BJP-ruled states launched dedicated campaigns and welfare schemes. A virtual exhibition of PM Modi’s achievements in the past seven years of his tenure was displayed on the Namo app. President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and leaders cutting across party lines conveyed greetings to him.
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