India, Feb. 23 -- Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta on Saturday asserted that there was no place for the "self" in governance, emphasising that "teamwork" was a crucial to people-centric development.

Gupta, addressing the inaugural session of the 15th Indian Student Parliament in Pune, said, "In sports, victory belongs to the team; in politics, the true victory must belong to the people."

Speaking on the theme "From Stadium to Statesmanship: What Can Politics Learn from Sports?", he described the playing field as a classroom for public life and said values imbibed through sports can strengthen democratic functioning.

"Sports offer a Sanjeevani (lifeline) to modern politics through three pillars, discipline, teamwork and sportsmansh...