Stoking the controversy surrounding the Wrestling Federation of India, the president of the suspended WFI, Sanjay Singh claimed that they neither recognise the suspension of their newly-elected physique by Sports activities Ministry nor the ad-hoc panel.
“We received elected democratically. The Returning Officer had signed the papers, how do they ignore that. We don’t recognise this ad-hoc panel,” Singh stated as per PTI.
“We don’t recognise this suspension. The WFI is working easily, we’re on the job. How will they (ad-hoc panel) organise Nationals if our state associations is not going to ship the groups. We’ll organise our Nationwide Championship quickly. We’re quickly calling the Govt Committee assembly. The discover of the EC assembly will likely be despatched in a day or two and we may have the Nationals organised earlier than they do it,” he stated.
“We had despatched our clarification to the ministry that we’ve got not flouted any guidelines. We’re nonetheless awaiting a reply. We’ll look forward to a day or two. If they don’t need to have interaction with us, we aren’t additionally not then. Our federation doesn’t recognise this suspension,” he added.
Final Wednesday, the Indian Olympic Affiliation fashioned an ad-hoc committee to look into the issues of the federation simply days after the newly elected Wrestling Federation of India physique was suspended by the Sports activities Ministry.
The committee will likely be led by Wushu Affiliation of India Bhupinder Singh Bajwa who’s the chairman and also will encompass Olympian MM Somaya and former worldwide badminton participant Manjusha Kanwar.
Final month, after suspending the elected WFI physique, the Sports activities Ministry had requested the IOA to represent an ad-hoc committee to handle and management affairs of the federation.
The event had come hours after the ministry had suspended the newly elected physique, noting that the ‘newly elected physique seems to be in full management of former workplace bearers’.