Just a few days after Sanjay Singh was named as the brand new president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), the Sports Ministry has suspended the newly-formed physique. In an official launch by Ministry on December 24, it was talked about that WFI physique ‘had proven full disregard for the prevailing guidelines and laws’. The determination has come after Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia tried to return his Padma Shri award to the PM Narendra Modi whereas one other Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik introduced her retirement from the game after Sanjay was elected because the chairman of WFI.
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The wrestlers mentioned that nothing modified after the elections have been held as the identical set of ‘corrupt’ folks returned to energy. In January 2023, the wrestlers sat in a protest for the ouster of the then WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh as many feminine athletes accused him of sexual harassment amongst different prices. Sanjay occurs to be an in depth aide of Brij Bhushan, who mentioned that his ‘Dabdaba’ (dominance) is unbroken in wrestling after the brand new appointment.
Sakshi, in a press convention held after the election outcomes, introduced her retirement from the game, conserving her wrestling boots on the desk. She additionally made a put up on social media web site X, questioning why Gonda was picked because the venue to host the wrestling nationals.Â
“I’ve stopped wrestling, but since last night, I’ve been troubled. The junior female wrestler who’s been calling me says that the Junior Nationals are starting on the 28th, and the new Wrestling Federation has decided to hold them in Nandini Nagar, Gonda. Gonda is Brij Bhushan’s region. Now, the junior female wrestler is wondering in what atmosphere she should go to wrestle there. Is there no other place in this country besides Nandini Nagar to hold the Nationals?,” Sakshi tweeted.
In its launch, the sports activities ministry has come down closely on Sanjay Singh for holding the nationals at such a brief discover. The ministry slammed the brand new president for taking hasty determination of holding the nationals with out feeling the necessity to inform the wrestlers prematurely of every week. “Such decisions (holding nationals) are to be taken by Executive Committee, before which agendas are required to be placed for consideration. As per Article XI of the WFI constitution under the Heading ‘Notices and Quorum for Meetings’, minimum notice period for EC meeting is 15 clear days and quorum is of 1/3rd of representatives. Even for Emergency EC meeting, minimum notice period is 7 clear days with quorum requirement of 1/3rd of representatives,” the ministry mentioned in its press launch.
