Sportspersons’ respect for late Dr Manmohan Singh’s ‘quiet energy’

It was throughout Singh’s second time period that India hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Video games within the nationwide capital. It was the primary worldwide multi-sport extravaganza to be held within the nation after the 1982 Asian Video games, additionally hosted by Delhi.

He had additionally inaugurated the Nationwide Soccer League’s eleventh version in Kolkata again in 2005 when late Congress chief Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi was heading the All India Soccer Federation.

Former wrestler Vinesh Phogat, who’s now a Congress MLA in Haryana, known as Singh a person of “extraordinary knowledge, simplicity and imaginative and prescient”.

‘Dr Manmohan Singh was not only a prime Minister, however he was a thinker, economist and a real patriot. His calm management fashion and financial imaginative and prescient gave the nation a brand new course, from the 1991 financial reforms to establishing India’s status on the worldwide stage,’ she posted on X.