Will bring policy for deaf athletes: Kalia

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, January 3

Coming out in support of international chess champion Mallika Handa, who had yesterday taken to Twitter to vent her ire over no policy in Punjab to give cash rewards or jobs to deaf sportspersons, ex-Bharatiya Janata Party minister Manoranjan Kalia on Monday promised her that he would do the needful when his government would come to power.

Kalia slammed the Congress government for going out of the way to offer job to the son of ex-CM Beant Singh 26 years after his assassination but not paying attention to the just demands of the specially abled players, who have been bringing honour for the state despite their handicaps.

The ex-BJP state president said this issue would be covered in the party’s manifesto. “I earnestly wish to get this policy framed whenever our government comes to power. My attempt will be to reward this young woman with a job offer at the earliest,” he said.