Sports and politics are an integral part of any advance and progressive nation. Sports can make a positive contribution to national morale, health and the economy, but politics in sports can engender interference in promotion of sports.
The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of Politics and Government on the development of sports in respect to political factors in the Haryana state. Five hundred respondents comprising of physical educationists, general people/public and students/players of both sexes were taken for this study. A questionnaire having questions related to politics having political factors was administered and analysis was done with the help of chi-square and percentile method.
The level of significance was chosen 0.05. The study approved the hypothesis i.e. Politics creates hindrance in the promotion of sports and government has a great importance in promotion of sports.
The study concluded that there exists a strong relationship between politics and sports in the state, but Politics in sports always create barrier in promotion of sports. The study also reveals that no game can survive for a long without the liberal attitude and funding by the Govt. in the age of global competition.
df = Degrees of freedom, p = Page, t = Table, X2 =Chi-square
