Nirmal Milkha Singh Dies of Covid: ‘He has become the biggest trophy for me’

“Nimmi is a devoted wife and mother. I am still amazed by how efficiently he manages his personal and professional life without allowing one of them to suffer,” Milkha Singh wrote about his wife Nirmal Kaur in the chapter of the jewelry in my crown in his autobiography in 2013. On Sunday, Nirmal Milkha Singh, a former Indian volleyball captain, inhaled his last after suffering from Covid-19 and struggled against the virus for more than 19 days at Mohali Hospital.

Nirmal, who married Milkha Singh on May 5, 1963, and has been the power of the Milkha family since the last six decades, suffered from covid pneumonia and is in the support of the Nivan Cannula (NIV) high flow (NIV) and non-invasive (NIV). since June 4.

The 85-year-old child, who survived Milkha Singh’s husband apart from the three daughters Dr. Mona Singh, Aleza Grover, Sonia Sanwalka and Son Jeev Milkha Singh, was cremated on Sunday night according to the Milkha Singh family. Milkha Singh, who is still in the PGimer ICU, cannot attend cremation.

Volleyball player and wedding with Singh after Cairon’s intervention

Princess Mehar Chand Saini and came from the Punjabi Khatri family based in Pathankot, Nirmal was the captain of the Punjab volleyball before becoming an Indian volleyball captain. The couple first met in Sri Lanka in 1956, where Milkha went competing in athletic and Nirmal competition was the captain of the Indian female volleyball team.

Physical Education Students, Patiala, Nirmal will meet Singh again as a student. In 1960, Kaur joined as the Deputy of the Physical Education Instructor (DPE) in Lady Irwin College, Delhi, and now in Delhi that Milkha Singh will meet Nirmal Kaur and that is also when Delhi’s prosperous family wants to get a Princess to marry MilKha before the Minister Punjab Minister Punjab Pratap Singh Cairon intervened and asked Milkha to marry Nirmal.

“The prosperous Delhi family had heard of dating Nimmi (Nirmal) and wrote angry letters to Cairon Sahib. When I met Cairon Sahib, he listened to me and said, ‘If you want to marry Nirmal, continue at once’,” Singh wrote. memoiran.

But with the father of Nirmal Mehar Chand Saini opposed the inter-caste marriage, Cairon once again intervened and convinced him to approve marriage. The couple finally married on May 5, 1963 in Pathankot with Sardar Umrao Singh, then the Minister of Sports Punjab, became a member of Baraat.

“Not many know that I come from a Hindu family. I idolized Milkha Singh Ji and he convinced my father Mehar Chand Saini to marry me. My father is an educated man and he wants me to marry an honest and simple man , which Milkha Singh Ji has. With God’s grace, we have completed 55 years of marriage and every day like Valentine’s Day for us, “Nirmal said to Indian Express in 2019.

Volleyball player and wedding with Singh after Cairon’s intervention
Princess Mehar Chand Saini and came from the Punjabi Khatri family based in Pathankot, Nirmal was the captain of the Punjab volleyball before becoming an Indian volleyball captain. The couple first met in Sri Lanka in 1956, where Milkha went competing in athletic and Nirmal competition was the captain of the Indian female volleyball team.

Physical Education Students, Patiala, Nirmal will meet Singh again as a student. In 1960, Kaur joined as the Deputy of the Physical Education Instructor (DPE) in Lady Irwin College, Delhi, and now in Delhi that Milkha Singh will meet Nirmal Kaur and that is also when Delhi’s prosperous family wants to get a Princess to marry MilKha before the Minister Punjab Minister Punjab Pratap Singh Cairon intervened and asked Milkha to marry Nirmal.