Chandigarh,May 31 : The Sports cell of the Chandigarh Territorial Youth Congress led by its President MrBalwinder Singh Johal honoured Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal by presentinghim a memento with a title ‘Sher- e – Chandigarh’ at latter’s residence on Sunday.A large number of sportspersonswere also present to congratulate Mr Bansal on his elevation to the rank of a Cabinet Minister. Other prominent members of the sports cell who felicitated Mr Bansal on this occasion were Mr Deepak Agnihotri, Vice-Chairman and PresidentCYC Mr HS Lucky.
Mr Johal who is also the President of the Table Soccer Federation of India said Mr Bansal is a genuine sports loverand has always come forward to help the sports community. Johal said Mr Bansal had laid stress on the grass rootdevelopment of sports from school level and he instructed local school administration to include table soccer as oneof the key discipline in its school sports calender.Mr.Yadwinder Singh who is member of the Asia-Oceania TableSoccer Confederation said city players were honoured by Mr Bansal in a big way last August when they had wonlaurels in the VIFA Asia Cup-2008.