Women athletes are making every Indian proud in sport

NewsBharati    10-Apr-2018
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Mumbai, April 10: After women athletes won gold medals in the Commonwealth Games, veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan took to Twitter and expressed how the Commonwealth Games (CWG) women athletes are making every Indian proud in sports, be it weightlifting, shooting, or table tennis among others.

“The greatness of Sport and the Pride we have in our Women athletes that are doing WONDERS DOWN UNDER ! Weight Lifting, Shooting, Table Tennis, Squash .. INCREDIBLE .. you make us proud Indians,” Bollywood star tweeted.

The 75-year-old actor has shown his support for women empowerment on numerous occasions. He has been an ambassador for United Nation’s girl child mission and has even actively promoted the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ campaign.

Interestingly, Indian women led the country to utter glory of the Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast, Australia as Heena Sidhu, Punam Yadav, Manu Bhaker, Saina Nehwal, Sanjita Chanu, Mirabai Chanu and women's table tennis team struck gold.