Indian Hockey Team on Hunger strike because they are ill treated ?

Now this is very much important as it came to my mind too when I saw prizes over prizes announced for winning Indian cricket team. It is really injustice, Hockey team recently won "Asian Championship " and that too without loosing any wicket but no fuzz about that.

Here is the news from Indiatimes:

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Irked by the step-motherly treatment meted out to the Indian hockey players by the central and four state governments, when compared to the sops given to cricketers after their win in the Twenty20 World Cup, the team members have decided to go on a 'hunger strike'.

Speaking to reporters, National Chief Coach, Joaquim Carvalho strongly objected to the announcement of cash awards by the Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel and the state governments of Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and Karnataka to the cricketers while ignoring the victory of his wards in the Asian Continental Championship early this month.

"Why our hockey players are orphaned and why our politicians are biased towards Hockey, the national game?", Carvalho asked.

However, "we are grateful ever to the President of India for her sending individual letters congratulating the hockey players for their Asia cup win, without losing a match".

He declared that one coach and four players have planned to go on hunger strike before the Karnataka Chief Minister's house for his announcing Rs five lakh each to the members of the cricket team, while "treating the state hockey players like dust".

Carvalho said "Karnataka CM has not till date congratulated his state hockey players for the Asia Cup win".

"Coach, Ramesh Parameswaran, manager R K Shetty and four players (Vikram Kanth, V R Rahunath, S V Sunil and Ignace Tirkey, who was recently adjudged for the Ekalaywa Award by the Karnataka Government) are to go on hunger strike before the Karnataka Chief Minister's house', he said.

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Well after this Hunger strike issue..
Karnataka Govt. announced Rs. 2 lac to each hockey player who were there in winning Asia Cup final.

sad really sad ...!!

indian hocky team is really treated badly .... wortst than in chak de india!!

i wish our goverment gets some sense in their heads and do good to them.

Amen!!

And Hockey is our national game !

Oh no. I was not aware of this :(

But people are more interested in cricket than hockey and its true.

We cant ask the footbal fans to see GP racing and vice-versa.

Its just people interest.

but it should be given proper recognition!!! so what is cricket is more loved by indians.. they should respect the national game and proper rewards should be given to them too.. they should be made to feel left out..

There were times when India was King of Hockey worldwide but then from last few decades it lost its charm as India was loosing again and again . But I think this is Good time for Indian sports. We got Flawless Asian cup in Hockey then Twenty20 world cup in cricket and the world Championship of Chess by Anand.

Atleast we should value them.

You left leander paes, sanya mirza for tennis and Karthikeyan in racing :)

lolz, recently I they had no noticable achievement .