Bapusaheb Pathare: A passionate person to nourish & flourish sports culture
Dear friends, India is amongst the top countries in the sports globally. Our young athletes have made us proud at biggest stage with their superlative success in numerous games. And if you look closely, many of them belong to the rural parts of our country.
Being a trained wrestler himself, he believes any kind of sport is a key aspect in building ones character. It gives you the confidence and instills huge amount of mutual respect towards people, be it your team mate or your opponent.
Sports help you to connect your mind to your body and make your thought process crystal clear.
Bapusaheb Pathare will always have a special place for sports in his heart, and his dedication towards it reflects it. He has organized wrestling competition every year to promote wrestlers from different parts of Maharashtra.
Also many national & international wrestlers like Yogeshvar Dutt have visited these competitions to inspire budding wrestlers
Not just traditional sports like wrestling or Kabaddi, Bapusaheb Pathare has also promoted modern and overseas sports. He has built the regional sports complex at Housing Board Yerawada which includes state of the art facilities like swimming pool, tennis court and basketball court.
Bapusaheb Pathare has developed a Skating Rink of international standard at Viman Nagar which is very famous amongst the kids nowadays.
For many students who come in Pune for training but can't afford accommodation, he has built a Residential school and sports complex at Kharadi wherein they can focus on their education and career in sports equally.
He has also started to develop an Olympic standard sports complex in our constituency.
Various gymnasiums in Kharadi, Manjari, Yerawada for our youth have been developed in Bapusaheb Pathare's regime; that too in record-breaking time.
Unfortunately, many pending projects are still awaiting its completion. He deserves a chance to transform these developments.
This will evolve our sports culture rapidly as he will complete all the pending projects and provide ultra-modern facilities which will help our sportsmen in their growth and achieve their dreams.