Jalandhar’s chess champion takes to Twitter, vents anger against Pargat Singh on sports policy
Jalandhar: Mallika Handa (26), who is suffering from 90 per cent hearing disability and speech impairment and is national and international chess champion, on Sunday took to Twitter to express her resentment against Punjab Education and Sports Minister Pargat Singh.
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Mallika Handa is the first Indian girl to win gold in the International Deaf and Dumb Chess Championship.[/caption]
Mallika Handa is the first Indian girl to win gold in the International Deaf and Dumb Chess Championship. She is also a seven-time gold medalist of the National Chess Championship for the Deaf. She has also been honoured with a National Disability Award and has also won a silver medal in the International Chess Committee of the Deaf (ICCD) worldwide World Deaf Blitz Chess Championship.
Mallika is suffering from 90 per cent hearing disability and speech impairment. On her Twitter handle, Jalandhar's Mallika Handa posted a short video clip and a snapshot of an email which she had sent to Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and PPCC president Navjot Sidhu.