Open boxing championship in commemoration of Prakash Dahal

Kathmandu : An open boxing tournament held in commemoration of the late Prakash Dahal kicked off here today. The event organised by the All Nepal Sports Association on the initiation of Nepal Boxing Association was inaugurated by Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa in Lainchaur. On the occasion, the Minister remembering the late Dahal as an ‘outstanding youth’, said youth participation in sports would obviously contribute to the achievement of better health and remain physically fit and fine, providing them a ground for developing the ‘we feeling’.
Boxing remaining as the worldwide popular game has its craze in Nepal also. Over 150 athletes (10 groups of men and eight groups of women) from 25 districts are competing in the tournament to be run till July 2. Prakash Dahal, son of chair of Communist Party of Nepal and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, passed away last November.