The players who won the World Cup to Team India rejected the reward of lakhs from the government, made a mind to leave the game

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|28-01-2025

Kho Kho's World Cup was recently played on India's soil. In the Kho Kho World Cup played in Delhi, India gave double good news to the fans. Both women and men of India became the Kho Kho Team World Champion. But now one players of both teams have rejected the cash prize money received from their government. MK Gautam, Chaitra B, both of these Kho Kho Players have not accepted the cash prize of 5 lakhs of the Government of Karnataka. Both players did not look satisfied with this amount. After this, Gautam accused the Karnataka government of discrimination. He also cited the Maharashtra government, which announced to give crores of rupees and government jobs to his lost lost players.

Gautam accused Karnataka government of discrimination

MK Gautam and Chaitra B Kho Kho Kho World Cup winning India's female-male Kho Kho was part of the team. Both are residents of Karnataka. Both of them increased the value of their country and also increased the value of Karnataka. But when the government gave five lakh rupees as a cash prize, the world champion player alleged discrimination. He even said that this award will not encourage him to remain in Kho Kho nor will people get motivation to move forward in this game.

On Saturday, Gautam told reporters about the matter, 'We (Chaitra B and Gautam) met CM at 2:30 pm and CM announced a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh only after two minutes of talks. . At that time we could not reject this proposal in front of him, so later we talked to our president and decided not to accept it. Other states give 2 crore rupees and A category jobs, so why does Karnataka not do this? '

Maharashtra government announced government nuns and 2.25 crore cash reward

On the one hand, while the Siddaramaiah government of Karnataka considered its World Champions players as capable of only Rs 5 lakh cash reward, while the Maharashtra government made a big announcement about the players of its winning team. The Maharashtra government also announced a reward of 2.25 crore cash in addition to government jobs to the players of the state who were part of the Kho Kho team.

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