IOA President PT Usha at loggerheads with Executive Council members

The President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), PT Usha is at loggerheads with her personal Executive Council members over an ongoing energy wrestle inside the organisation.

Usha believes that just a few members of the Executive Council are attempting to “sideline” her and therefore she has urged them to work in direction of “taking the IOA to heights”.

Notably, on Friday, members of the Executive Council pasted a discover at the IOA Bhawan in New Delhi, asking unauthorised individuals to chorus from getting into the premises.

Usha views the discover, meant for 2 just lately appointed officers as “arbitrary” and directed the IOA employees to take away the copies of the discover posted inside the IOA Bhawan. She additionally requested the IOA employees to observe her steerage and act in accordance to her directives.

“It is disheartening to see that we are still not able to work as a team and each of your acts is an attempt to sideline me,” Usha talked about in her response delivered to the Executive Council members. 

“I am left with no option but to remind you all that the day-to-day administrative functions including hiring and firing of staff is not the job of the Executive Council. As the EC, we should be using our powers and right for much more important aspects of taking the IOA to heights,” she mentioned.

“It is directed to the IOA staff to remove any copies of the notice posted within the IOA Bhawan. Further, the IOA staff is instructed to follow guidance and directives from my office via my executive assistant,” she added.

There can be numerous furore relating to Ajay Narang’s position within the IOA. Members of the Executive Council declare that they’d terminated Narang from the publish of Executive Assistant to the President, nevertheless, Usha, an incumbent member of the Rajya Sabha rejected the termination as “absolute nullity”.

“The termination documents are an absolute nullity. The appointment of the executive assistant to the president is not within the jurisdiction of the Executive Council and thus the termination is non-est and bad in law. I am satisfied with the work done by Captain Ajay Kumar Narang (Retd) and do not find any reason to terminate his services,” Usha mentioned.