PT Usha Rajya Sabha: The Legendary athlete Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha presided over the proceedings of the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. Indian Olympic Association(IOA) Chief, PT Usha took the charge in the absence of Chairman and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankar. A short clip of the moment was also posted by Usha on her official Twitter account, in which she described the moment and expressed her hope for it to become a milestone. Follow All Sports news with INSIDESPORT.IN.
PT Usha Rajya Sabha: ‘Hope to create milestones’ – IOA Chief PT Usha sets greater heights as former Olympian chairs Rajya Sabha session for the 1st time – Check out
Posting a short clip of the moment on her official Twitter handle, Usha invoked Franklin D. Roosevelt’s quote “Great power involves great responsibility” and said the same was felt by her as she chaired the session. “I hope to create milestones as I undertake this journey with the trust and faith vested in me by my people,” she tweeted.
“Great power involves great responsibility” as said by Franklin D. Roosevelt was felt by me when I chaired the Rajya Sabha session. I hope to create milestones as I undertake this journey with the trust and faith vested in me by my people.
🎥 @sansad_tv pic.twitter.com/bR8wKlOf21— P.T. USHA (@PTUshaOfficial) February 9, 2023
In 2016, Usha was named the chairperson of the organising committee of the Bhartiya Janta Party’s national executive meeting in Kozhikode. The star Indian athlete had been nominated to the Upper House by the BJP in July 2022. In December 2022, the 58-year-old became the first woman president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). She was elected unopposed as nobody wanted to contest her.
PT Usha Rajya Sabha: ‘Hope to create milestones’ – IOA Chief PT Usha sets greater heights as former Olympian chairs Rajya Sabha session for the 1st time – Check out
Sprint queen PT Usha, popularly known as the Payyoli Express, ruled track and field events in the 1980s. Since her retirement in 2000, PT Usha has been a constant presence at national track and field meets along with her trainees from the Usha School of Athletics based in Kinalur in Kerala’s Kozhikode.
The star sprinter has won four gold medals and seven silvers at the Asian Games. She missed out on a podium finish in the women’s 400m hurdles at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics by 1/100th of a second. Her timing of 55.42s in Los Angeles still holds as a national record.
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