P Gopichand recommends HS Prannoy for Arjuna Award

Indian shuttler H S Prannoy has been really useful for the Arjuna award by chief nationwide badminton coach Pullela Gopichand after the Badminton Association of India ignored him for a second successive yr as a result of disciplinary points.

On June 2, BAI had really useful Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty and Sameer Verma for Arjuna award, leaving out Prannoy which prompted the shuttler to specific his displeasure on twitter.” Same outdated story. Guy who has medals in CWG and Asian Championships not even really useful by the affiliation. And man who was not there on any of those main occasions really useful. #waah #thiscountryisajoke,” Prannoy had stated in his now-deleted tweet.

It has emerged now that Prannoy’s identify was really useful by Gopichand on June three in his capability as a Khel Ratna Award recipient.

“Gopichand recommended Prannoy for Arjuna on June 3 after BAI decided not to send his name. He did it as a winner of Khel Ratna and not as the chief India coach. He was not aware of the disciplinary issues,” a supply near the event advised PTI.

Gopichand, nevertheless, refused to touch upon the difficulty, whereas Prannoy didn’t reply regardless of repeated calls.

On Friday, Prannoy was served a showcause discover asking him to reply for his outburst towards BAI inside 15 days.

“There are several instances of disciplinary issues with Prannoy. The Federation had been very tolerant all this while but in the recent past, his attitude has forced BAI to take action and also relook at the disciplinary policies,” BAI secretary Ajay Singhania had stated.

“A show-cause letter has been issued for the remarks made. If the player fails to respond in the allotted time, BAI will be taking stern action.”The governing physique was not pleased with Prannoy and his teammate Kidambi Srikanth for not taking part in the semifinal of the Asian Team Championship at Manila and as an alternative leaving for Barcelona to play in one other occasion. India had misplaced the semifinal however completed third within the competitors in February.

The BAI really useful Srikanth for the Khel Ratna award on Friday after the highest Indian shuttler apologised for pulling out of a event halfway.