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Fremont Hockey Club honours touring hockey stalwarts
WSN Network

UNION CITY: Indian Olympian Baljit Singh Saini and Pakistani Olympian Mohammad Tariq Imran were honoured at a reception hosted at Raja Sweets amidst a gathering of many community leaders. Resident hockey players including former Olympian Gurtej Singh Dhaliwal, Asian hockey veteran Harwinder Singh, Bhupinder Singh, national swimming champion Jasbir Singh Gorkha, national swimming coach Jasjeet Singh were present at the meet.

Kashmir Singh Dhugga, who has been actively promoting hockey in California, was also present along with representatives, junior and senior players of many sports clubs of the region. Community leaders and gurdwara representatives also joined others present to honour the leading hockey players. While honouring the duo, the organisers decided to promote sports among the youth.


Famous wrestlers Tarsem and Kamal, Prof. Dhanoa, President of the Punjabi Sahit Sabha Bhag Singh Sagar, Raja Sweets Chain chief Makhan Singh Bains were also present to greet the two players. Among others, the member of the Supreme Council of the Fremont Gurdwara and leader of the Sikh Youth of America, Jaswinder Singh Jandi, famous Sikh leader, Gurtej Singh Dhaliwal, international swimmer and coach and Sikh Youth of America leader Jasjeet Singh, Asian player Harwinder Singh Gill, honoured Baljit Singh Saini.


Subsequently, the Pakistani player Tariq Imran was honoured by former hockey player and leading businessman Kashmir Singh Dhugg, Satjit Singh Virk and Rajwan Khan.

Speaking on the occasion, Baljit Singh said that it was a great occasion as a player from India and Pakistan were honoured jointly at one function. Tariq Imran thanked the organisers and said that it was a privilege to enjoy the warmth of people of the two Punjabs in distant lands and prayed that this association would continue. Prof. Prabhsharandeep Singh said that players are the true representatives of nations. The stage was ably conducted by Satnam Singh. He said that while we are honouring our players, we should afford to remember the events of 1984. Literature relating to events of June 1984 prepared by Sikh Youth of America was distributed at the function.

11 June, 2008
 

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