chandigarh in 2014 bajrang punia had won a silver each at the commonwealth games and the asiad four years later he has ensured the colour of both the medals got an upgrade first the 24yearold won gold at the gold coast cwg earlier this year and on sunday he clinched the yellow metal at the ongoing asian gameshuge celebrations erupted at bajrangs village khuddan in haryanas jhajjar district after his triumph his brother harender punia distributed sweets among the village folks crackers were burst for more than an hour and slogans like bharat mata ki jai jab tak suraj chand rahega bajrang tera naam rahega reverberated in the airsone ka vaayda kar ke nikla tha wo before leaving for jakarta bajrang had promised that he would return with the gold medal in the last asiad he had won silver and wanted to go one step further he trained extremely hard in the last threefour months for the asian games harender told toi bahut hi atmavishwaasi ladka hai apna bajrang bajrangs strength is his selfconfidence he addedbajrang trains either at sports authority of indias sonipat centre or at yogeshwar dutts academy in gohana he revers yogeshwar a lot and has been training under the 2012 london olympics bronzemedallist for the last eight yearsyogeshwar was effusive in his praise for bajrang i congratulate bajrang for winning gold i can assure that he will continue to do the country proud in the coming years i am extremely proud of him yogeshwar saidbajrangs father balwan singh punia and mother ompyari were glued to their tv set for their sons goldmedal match balwan who is a farmer was a smalltime pehelwan in his youth his bajrang defensive game was superb and that has been the big improvement in the last year or so opined balwan when asked his view about bajrangs final we will give him a rapturous welcome when he comes back he added