FILE PHOTO: India's junior home minister Kiren Rijiju pauses during an interview with Reuters inside his office in New Delhi, India, September 29, 2015. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India continues its relentless bid to get shooting back in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham with the country's sports minister Kiren Rijiju seeking intervention of the British government for the event's restoration.
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has already threatened to boycott the Games over exclusion of the discipline which supplied 16 of their 66 medals, including seven golds, at last year's event at Gold Coast when they finished third in the medals table.
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