The country's sports fraternity on 3 September welcomed the appointment of Olympic silver medallist shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore as the new Sports Minister, and wished him well for his new stint.
Rathore, who won a silver medal in the double trap event in the 2004 Athens Olympics, replaced Vijay Goel as the Sports Minister. He was earlier the Minister of State in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.
Fellow shooter and India's lone individual Olympic gold medallist, Abhinav Bindra, was delighted at Rathore being made the Minister for Sports.