Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Prithviraj Chavan on Friday urged the Centre to honour Olympic wrestler Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav with Padma Bhushan posthumously.
Jadhav bagged India's first individual Olympic Bronze Medal in bantamweight freestyle wrestling at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952.
In the letter, Chavan wrote, in spite of winning India its first ever Olympics medal, Jadhav's "achievement was unsurpassed for 44 years.
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