The determination to host the Nationals was taken on the AGM and the members will focus on and ratify it, suspended WFI President Sanjay Singh mentioned.
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The suspended Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) will go ahead with its Executive Committee meeting in New Delhi on January 16 and has vowed not to budge from its determination to host the nationwide championships regardless of the Sports Ministry issuing a warning towards it.
The discover for the Executive Committee was issued on December 31 and most State associations are anticipated to attend.
It is predicted the members will ratify the decisions taken during the General Council meeting of the WFI on December 21, hours after the brand new workplace bearers had been elected.
The WFI had introduced that it’ll conduct Nationals in Pune from January 29-31, prompting the Sports Ministry to say that the federation has no authority to conduct the Senior National Championships and any occasion staged by the physique might be thought-about “unsanctioned” and “unrecognised”.
“We are going ahead with the meeting. I am expecting all affiliated units to attend the meeting. We will not step back. The decision to host the Nationals was taken at the AGM and the members will discuss and ratify it,” suspended WFI President Sanjay Singh advised PTI.
“It is not an individual decision taken by me. AGM had taken the decisions and the EC should pass it. We will decide collectively,” he added.
One of the factors within the circulated agenda is to “explain define and interpret certain provisions of the constitution.”
The round clearly talked about, citing the structure, that the president “shall be chief officer of the WFI. He shall be empowered to call meetings of the council and executive, if he deems proper.”
It could also be talked about that the ministry had objected to non-involvement of the secretary normal within the December 21 meeting.
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Citing violation of the National Sports Code and the WFI structure, the federal government had suspended the newly-elected physique on December 24, three days after the federation carried out its election.
The WFI has maintained that it neither accepts the suspension nor does it recognise the ad-hoc panel that has been constituted by the IOA to handle the day-to-day affairs of the game.
The WFI additionally maintained that it had not flouted any rule and that the president, as per the structure, had the facility to take decisions and the secretary normal was sure to execute these decisions.
Interestingly, the ad-hoc panel has already introduced that it’ll conduct senior Nationals from February 3 in Jaipur and the age group championships in Gwalior.
