The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President, Sanjay Singh has said that the Sports activities Ministry’s determination to droop the newly elected physique final month is ‘not acceptable’ and that the Federation shall be holding an Govt Committee assembly on January 16 to debate the matter.
“We want a correctly functioning Federation. We’re taking the matter to the court docket subsequent week,” Singh advised PTI. “This suspension is just not acceptable to us as a result of we had been elected democratically. Now we have additionally referred to as the Govt Committee assembly on January 16.”
On the agendas up for dialogue within the assembly, Singh added, “We’ll focus on the formulation of the ad-hoc panel and internet hosting of the nationwide championships on totally different age teams.”
Singh had been elected because the Federation chief after having gained the election towards Commonwealth Video games gold medalist Anita Sheoran 40-7. Lower than 72 hours after the outcomes nevertheless, the Indian Sports activities Ministry had suspended the newly elected physique, noting that the ‘newly elected physique seems to be in full management of former workplace bearers’.
Moreover, the Ministry had requested the IOA to represent an ad-hoc committee to handle and management affairs of the federation.
The ad-hoc panel has already introduced will probably be conducting senior Nationals from February 3 in Jaipur and the age group championships in Gwalior inside the subsequent six weeks.
Because the election of the brand new WFI physique, the nation’s elite wrestlers in Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat had expressed dismay over the brand new chief, given his shut affiliation with the previous WFI head, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
In the meantime, within the nationwide capital on Wednesday, younger wrestlers from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Himachal Pradesh voiced their grievances towards the three wrestlers, blaming them for halting their careers.