West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee announced sixteenth August as the “Khela Hobe Divas” which will be set apart by dissemination of footballs to helpless youngsters.
Nonetheless, BJP has compared this declaration to observe ‘Khela Diwas’ on August 16 with the Muslim League’s ‘Immediate Action Day’ dispatched in 1946.
Beginning of Khela Hobe:
• The trademark was first utilized by Bangladesh’s Awami League MP Shamim Osman a couple of years prior.
• It was promoted in West Bengal by Trinamool Congress leader of Birbhum area, Anubrata Mondal, who at a nearby political occasion said, “Khela hobe. Bhoyonkor khelahobe. Eimatite khelahobe.” (The game is on. It will be a risky game. In any case, the game is on and this will be the jungle gym.)
Why sixteenth August
• on 16 August in memory of the 16 individuals who lost their lives in a charge during the 1980 match at the notorious Eden Gardens.
• Sports exercises will be held in every one of the squares, districts and metropolitan partnerships and all wards of KMC on that event.
Steps taken
Under this plan, the state sports and youth undertakings division gave over more than one lakh footballs to different brandishing clubs to energize the adolescent and understudies for playing football and along these lines foster games exercises in the state.
• The 303 IFA-partnered clubs additionally got 10 footballs each.
Delhi Visit of West Bengal CM
• 2024 “poore desh me khela hobe” (game will be on all around the nation), while she held gatherings with a few Opposition pioneers there.
• She had named the “khela” to be a “ceaseless interaction,” and said that in the 2024 Lok Sabha surveys, the Opposition will be more grounded than the BJP and will make history.
