The ad-hoc panel governing the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has introduced that the senior nationwide wrestling championships can be organised from February 2 to 5 in Rajasthan’s capital metropolis, Jaipur.
The senior nationwide wrestling championships will witness wrestlers compete with one another for prime honours in the Greco-Roman, Free Style and girls’s class. The info was conveyed by a press launch issued by the IOA-appointed (Indian Olympic Association) and the newly fashioned ad-hoc panel led by the WUSHU Association of India President Bhupendra Singh Bajwa.
The Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) at Railway Stadium in Ganpati Nagar will organise and handle the championships. The ad-hoc panel has additionally specified that not one of the stakeholders must be in contact with any of the members of the suspended WFI.
For the unversed, the Sports Ministry of India suspended the newly elected Sanjay Singh-led WFI after it was discovered in violation of its personal structure.
Sanjay Singh’s administrative physique made a hasty announcement to maintain U15 and U20 nationals in Nandini Nagar, Gonda, Uttar Pradesh from December 28-30 and copped the brunt of it.
It additionally appeared to the Sports Ministry that the Sanjay Singh-led physique was operating “in complete control of former office bearers in complete disregard to the Sports Code”.
Therefore, the Sports Ministry requested the IOA to handle the operations of the WFI and the latter fashioned an ad-hoc panel of three members. The panel is led by the WUSHU Association of India President Bhupendra Singh Bajwa and has two extra members in MM Somaya, a 1980 Olympic gold medallist hockey participant and Manjusha Kanwar, a 1998 Commonwealth Games badminton medallist.
Notably, the WFI stays suspended by the apex wrestling governing physique – United World Wrestling (UWW). The suspension was introduced in August for a delay in elections.
