New Delhi: Kunjarani Devi, India's first gold medalist at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, is angry.
Kunjarani has won 67 international medals in her career, but is peeved because the government hasn't awarded her the Padma Shri yet.
Kunjarani believes she should have got the honour much before youngsters like Sania Mirza. Devi, a deputy commandant in the CRPF, started India's gold rush in the Commonwealth Games by winning the medal in the 48kg weightlifting category.
When shed returned home, the CRPF’s top brass felicitated her.
At 38, Devi is one of the oldest weightlifters in the world and the grand old lady of Indian weightlifting.
From world championships to the Commonwealth Games, there's at least one medal from each event in her cabinet.
She has been awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and the Arjuna Award but it’s the Padma Shree that she wants.
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