Tokyo Olympics: Sports Minister Anurag Thakur launches official song for Indian Olympic contingent: Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday launched the 'Cheer4India' song of the country's Olympic contingent and urged the public to wholeheartedly rally behind its athletes during the Tokyo Games.

Grammy Award winner composure AR Rahman and young singer Ananya Birla collaborated to present the official song of the Indian contingent for the Tokyo Olympics, titled Cheer4India: Hindustani Way.

"I urge all my countrymen to listen to the song, share it to fellow citizens and also cheer for the entire Indian contingent for the Tokyo Olympics to show that we are behind them," Thakur said.

Glimpses from the launch event of the Official Team India Cheer Song for #Tokyo2020Come let's cheer for our Athle.He thanked Rahman and Ananya for composing the song in such difficult times of COVID-19 pandemic.

Indian Olympic Association President NarinderBatra said the launch of Team Indian official cheer song was a culmination of hard work by all the stakeholders in the last 18 months.

MoS (Sports) NisithPramanik, Sports Secretary Ravi Mittal, Sports Authority of India Director General SandipPradhan and IOA Secretary General Rajeev Mehta were also present on the occasion.