<p class="bodytext">The last batch of India's triumphant Paralympic athletes, including shooting sensation Avani Lekhara and shuttler-cum-bureaucrat Suhas Yathiraj, returned home to a rousing reception on Monday with their supporters and families thronging the airport for a glimpse of the heroes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India returned with an unprecedented 19 medals, including five gold, eight silver and six bronze to sign off the country's best-ever Paralympics campaign by finishing 24th in the overall tally on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The last batch of Indian para athletes, who returned home this evening were the badminton contingent, shooters and recurve archery team.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Among the medal-winning para athletes who returned to a grand welcome were 19-year-old Lekhara, who won a gold and bronze, gold winning shuttlers Pramod Bhagat, and Krishna Nagar, silver-medallist Yathiraj, bronze-medallist Manoj Sarkar, and triumphant shooters Singhraj Adana and Manish Narwal among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The para athletes were received by Haryana Sports Minister and former hockey player Sandeep Singh, officials of the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI), besides a swarm of fans among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, silver medal winning table tennis player Bhavinaben Patel also returned to the country in the morning along with other athletes and officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All the athletes were garlanded and escorted out of the terminal by airport's civil defence volunteers amid thunderous applause.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Tokyo-returned para athletes are scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.</p>
<p class="bodytext">The last batch of India's triumphant Paralympic athletes, including shooting sensation Avani Lekhara and shuttler-cum-bureaucrat Suhas Yathiraj, returned home to a rousing reception on Monday with their supporters and families thronging the airport for a glimpse of the heroes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India returned with an unprecedented 19 medals, including five gold, eight silver and six bronze to sign off the country's best-ever Paralympics campaign by finishing 24th in the overall tally on Sunday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The last batch of Indian para athletes, who returned home this evening were the badminton contingent, shooters and recurve archery team.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Among the medal-winning para athletes who returned to a grand welcome were 19-year-old Lekhara, who won a gold and bronze, gold winning shuttlers Pramod Bhagat, and Krishna Nagar, silver-medallist Yathiraj, bronze-medallist Manoj Sarkar, and triumphant shooters Singhraj Adana and Manish Narwal among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The para athletes were received by Haryana Sports Minister and former hockey player Sandeep Singh, officials of the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI), besides a swarm of fans among others.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, silver medal winning table tennis player Bhavinaben Patel also returned to the country in the morning along with other athletes and officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All the athletes were garlanded and escorted out of the terminal by airport's civil defence volunteers amid thunderous applause.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Tokyo-returned para athletes are scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.</p>