A defiant Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) will problem its suspension by the Sports activities Ministry in courtroom subsequent week and has additionally known as for an Government Committee assembly in New Delhi on January 16 to debate the best way ahead.
Citing violation of the Nationwide Sports activities Code and the WFI structure, the federal government had suspended the newly-elected physique on December 24, three days after the Federation performed its election.
The WFI has maintained that it neither accepts the suspension nor does it recognise the ad-hoc panel that has been constituted by the IOA to handle the day-to-day affairs of the game.
“We’d like a correctly functioning Federation. We’re taking the matter to the courtroom subsequent week. This suspension just isn’t acceptable to us as a result of we had been elected democratically. We have now additionally known as the Government Committee assembly on January 16,” WFI President Sanjay Singh informed PTI.
Singh, who hails from Varanasi, reasoned how the ad-hoc panel was not geared up to ship in crunch time.
“You will have seen how the staff for the Zagreb Open was introduced. 5 weight classes will go unrepresented. This can occur within the absence of a correct Federation. If sure wrestlers had been unavailable of their respective classes, then why had been their replacements not sought?
“By no means ever in a match, when the federation was in place, we let India go unrepresented in any weight class. And what was the logic in selecting the identical staff that competed within the Asian Video games. There are different contenders as properly.
“I’ve been getting calls from wrestlers who thought they had been worthy of a spot within the Indian staff. They mentioned they might have made the staff in the event that they got a good probability to show themselves by way of trials. That’s the reason you want a correct federation in place,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, a WFI supply revealed that the discover for the Government Committee was issued on December 31.
One of many factors within the circulated agenda is to “clarify outline and interpret sure provisions of the structure.”
The round clearly talked about, citing the structure, that the President “shall be chief officer of the WFI. He shall be empowered to name conferences of the council and government, if he deems correct.”
It could be talked about that the ministry had objected to non-involvement of the secretary basic within the December 21 Normal Council assembly of the WFI.
The WFI had maintained that it had not flouted any rule and that the President, as per the structure, had the ability to take selections and the secretary basic was sure to execute these selections.
“We are going to talk about the formation of the ad-hoc panel and likewise the internet hosting of the Nationwide Championships in several age teams,” mentioned a supply.
Apparently, the ad-hoc panel has already introduced that it’s going to conduct senior Nationals from February 3 in Jaipur and the age group championships in Gwalior inside subsequent six weeks.
It stays to be seen whether or not the wrestlers, who’re the primary stakeholders within the sport, will select to compete within the occasions organised by WFI or those performed by the ad-hoc committee.
