Sports Minister says India will advocate for kabaddi to be included in the 2024 Olympics.

According to Indian Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju, the government would try to include kabaddi in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

In response to a question in the Lok Sabha, he stated, “Kabaddi is an indigenous sport and that the government would make efforts to take it to the Olympics.”

Former sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore too had lobbied for kabaddi’s entry as a discipline in the Olympic Games.

“Hopefully kabaddi will very soon become a global sport and we will see it emerge as a strong contender for an Olympic sport,” Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore had said during the Kabaddi Masters Dubai 2018.

“Kabaddi has got all the qualities to become an Olympic sport. It has got speed,