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Jyoti Kumari, who cycled 1200 km carrying her ailing father, receives praise from Ivanka Trump

US President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump has praised 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari, who cycled down 1200km carrying her ailing father in the course of the nationwide lockdown in India, terming her act as a “beautiful feat of endurance and love”.

Stuck in Gurugram in Haryana as a result of COVID-19-induced journey restrictions and lockdown, a tenacious Jyoti requested her father to take a seat on the rear facet service of her cycle and took him to his native place in Bihar, overlaying 1200km in seven days.

Ivanka took to Twitter on Friday to focus on the story of the Indian woman, a category eight pupil, whose journey has grow to be an in depth speaking level even on social media the place there was speak about whether or not she has it in her to pursue biking as a profession.

“15 yr old Jyoti Kumari, carried her wounded father to their home village on the back of her bicycle covering +1,200 km over 7 days.

“This beautiful feat of endurance & love has captured the imagination of the Indian people and the cycling federation!” Ivanka stated in a tweet.

 

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Ivanka, who’s advisor to President Trump on job creation, has visited India twice, most lately in February this yr alongside together with her father. In 2017, she led the US delegation on the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in India.

Impressed with the doggedness with which Kumari pedalled her solution to Bihar from Gurugram, carrying her ailing father, the Cycling Federation of India (CFI) will invite Kumari to seem for a trial subsequent month, in what may very well be a life-changing alternative.

CFI Chairman Onkar Singh lately informed PTI that if Kumari handed the trial, she will probably be chosen as a trainee on the state-of-the-art National Cycling Academy on the IGI Stadium advanced right here. Jyoti’s father, Mohan Paswan, an autorickshaw driver in Gurgaon bought injured and the lockdown left him with none supply of revenue. He needed to return the autorickshaw to the proprietor.

The father and daughter duo began their journey from Gurgaon on May 10 after shopping for a cycle with no matter cash that they had and reached their village on May 16.

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