ronjan sodhi got the first rajiv gandhi khel ratna award.
ronjan sodhi got the first rajiv gandhi khel ratna award.
who got the first rajiv gandhi khel ratna award?
ronjan sodhi
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the 2002 selection committee headed by former football player pradip kumar banerjee made twenty one recommendations for the arjuna award and two recommendations for the rajiv gandhi khel ratna award, athlete k. m. beenamol and shooter anjali bhagwat. the government rejected the recommendations and asked the committee to cut down the list to comply with the award guidelines, where only one sportsperson for the rajiv gandhi khel ratna award and fifteen sportspersons along with one disabled athlete for the arjuna awards could be recommended each year. the committee revised the list to recommend beenamol for the award over bhagwat but also put a request "to consider everyone". the decision spurred criticism for ignoring the achievements of the shooter and bhagwat and the national rifle association of india expressed their "disappointment" with the decision. later, the government accepted all the recommendations "as an exception" and jointly awarded beenamol and bhagwat for the year 2002.
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