Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that it is necessary to keep politicians out of sports administration.
Addressing at the launch of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Abhiyan and National Youth Policy 2014 here, Rahul said, “ Keep politicians out of sports administration.”
“More power should go to sportspersons in deciding issues related to sports,” he added.
Rahul further said, “When you are doing a 24 hour job like politics, sports give that little time to think over what happened during the day.”
Comparing sports with politics, Rahul said it is similar to empowering common man to help change politics in the country.
“The same applies to politics. If you want to change the politics in the country, give more and more power to young people, give more power to the common man and you change the politics,” he added.
National Youth Policy 2014 and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Abhiyan, a Centrally Sponsored Plan Scheme were launched at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Friday.
Sports Minister Jitendra Singh, Mary Kom, Vijender Singh, P Gopichand, Ashwini Nachappa, Ronjan Sodhi and Karnam Malleswari were also present on the occasion.
The two programmes were also simultaneously launched at district headquarters and in universities throughout the country.
