sportsman by heart & a politician by choice:Kirti Azad

Sportsman by heart & a politician by choice: KIRTI AZAD

 Honourable member of parliament and former Indian Cricketer Mr. Kirti Azad attended a sports session on “sports as a catalyst to build a New India” at FICCI‘s 91^st Annual General Meeting on 15 of December 2018.

On that session when one of the panelist asked him “how u see sports then and what do you see happening now in terms of your on individual space”?

While answering this question Mr. Kirti Azad firstly said that, “I am a sportsman by heart and a politician by choice”.

He expressed his feelings for sports and said that he loves to be a sportsperson and there is no discrimination in sports. A Sportsman doesn’t belong to any caste, creed, religion, region, etc. The thing which matters for a sportsman is that he/she belongs to his/her team and country as well.

He also talk about the considerations that are followed to be a politician that which caste, area he/she belongs to, which area can fit in where you can contest election.

He also told that “I wish there a sportsman spirit in politics. We would have been a better country.” He also added that he didn’t mean to say that we are a better country but it’s something how we feel within ourselves.

Then he came back to the question that what’s the difference in games then and now, he answered the game is exactly same. Only a few changes might have took place. It’s the attitude which is changed over the year. Lot of money has came into game like BPL, IPL, etc.

He discussed about one of the major problems of sports i,e. the federation. He told that mostly all the posts of the federation are handled by politician which is big problem according to him. Giving by his own example he explained how a full time politician can give his 365 days to a sports federation.

At last he concluded that we can’t depend on federation and government only for helping the sportsman financially, Private Enterprenuers have to give their own contribution for sports.