Medal winners celebrate their success in Lucknow

It was a day full of celebrations when the medal winners of the Asian Games 2018 and the

2018 Commonwealth Games

from the state were felicitated by the Yogi Adityanath, UP CM at an event in Lucknow, recently. But an evening prior to the ceremony, the players let their hair down at a party specially organised for them at the

Sports College

.
Chetan Chauhan, former Test cricketer and the Sports Minister of UP, was the chief guest on the occasion, which had lots of naach-gaana and celebrations.

(L-R) Santosh Kumar, Vandana Katariya, Poonam Yadav, Chetan Chauhan, Shardul Vihan, Lalit Upadhyay and Ravi Kumar (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

Deepanshi and Kuldeep entertained the guests with their singing at the party which also saw Dr RP Singh, Sudha Bajpai, MP Singh as guests.
Among the players who attended the do were hockey player Vandana Katariya,

Vandana Gupta

, Khushbu,

Rashmi Srivastava

,

hockey striker Lalit Upadhyay

,

weightlifter Poonam Yadav

, Rakesh Yadav who won a medal in equestrian, shooters Ravi Kumar and Shardul Vihaan and wushu player Santosh Kumar among others.

Deepanshi and Kuldeep (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

The players danced on stage and enjoyed themselves till late in the night.

(L) MP Singh (R) Sudha Bajpai (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)

(L) Dr RP Singh (R) JS Bhatiya (BCCL/ Vishnu Jaiswal)