Outgoing Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh claimed that 22 out of 25 state models attended a gathering hosted by him right here on Sunday, including that “his candidates” for numerous posts for the federation elections on August 12 might be introduced on July 31. Monday is the final date for submitting nominations.
“22 of the 25 state models related to the WFI attended the assembly. (Our) candidates might be introduced on Monday,” stated BJP MP Brij Bhushan, who hosted the assembly at a five-star resort right here.
Brij Bhushan, in opposition to whom the nation’s six prime wrestlers together with Olympic medallists Bajranj Punia and Sakshi Malik had levelled allegations of sexual harassment, is ineligible to contest as he has accomplished 12 years as head of the federation — the utmost interval allowed as per the Nationwide Sports activities Code.
A state unit member who attended the assembly right here stated on situation of anonymity that the BJP chief’s son-in-law, who’s broadly being touted as Brij Bhushan’s successor for the highest WFI submit and a consultant from Bihar within the August 12 WFI elections, won’t contest for a prime place.
“He (Vishal) declared his incapability to contest the elections as a result of he’s very occupied and won’t be able to do justice to his job if he will get elected,” stated a state unit member secretary. “He’ll, nevertheless, forged his vote,” the secretary added.
Nevertheless, Brij Bhushan’s candidates might face problem from rival candidates, who reportedly had a parallel assembly of their very own at a unique location within the nationwide capital.
“There might be one other assembly on Sunday earlier than the submitting of nominations on the Olympic Bhawan, which might be chaired by Brij Bhushan,” added one other supply near the BJP MP’s camp.
The day-to-day actions of the WFI are being managed by the Indian Olympic Affiliation-constituted ad-hoc committee, led by Wushu Affiliation of India chief Bhupender Singh Bajwa.
