NEW DELHI: IOA’s ad-hoc committee, tasked with conducting the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections, on Monday referred to as 5 disputed state our bodies for a listening to on June 21 and in addition prolonged the final date to obtain nominations for the structure of the electoral faculty by two days.
The deadline for state our bodies to ship names for forming the electoral faculty was June 19 however the listening to has pushed it to June 21.
The disaffiliated items from Maharashtra, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan had approached the ad-hoc panel just lately, claiming that they’re eligible to appoint members for electoral faculty and have the proper to take part in WFI elections on July 6.
“The returning officer has invited the aforesaid Representationists for listening to on 21/6/2023 between 3pm to 4pm. It might be futile if the final date for nomination of members to the Electoral Faculty is prolonged to 21/6/2023 until 12:00 midnight,” learn a notice from Assistant Returning Officer Tapas Kumar Bhattacharya.
It has been learnt the outgoing WFI secretary normal VM Prasood may also be current within the listening to to make clear on the standing of those disaffiliated items.
The disaffiliated items from Assam, Tripura, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh had additionally reached out to the ad-hoc panel with their pleas however the committee didn’t discover advantage of their representations.
The WFI had dissolved the state items of Haryana and Maharashtra at its AGM in June 2022 and put in new our bodies by conducting recent elections.
Nationalist Congress Get together (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar-led Maharashtra unit had then approached the Bombay Excessive Court docket which had held “unlawful” the WFI determination to dissolve the state physique and in addition put aside the July 31 elections.
In keeping with WFI officers, the Haryana physique, led by Congress chief Deepender Hooda, was dissolved as a result of the workplace bearers had overstayed their phrases and the state physique was fully inactive whereas in energy, not conducting any competitions.
In 2019, elections to the Himachal Pradesh physique had been performed on court docket’s course and it was due for recent elections in January this 12 months. Nonetheless, within the wake of wrestlers’ protest towards WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the election couldn’t be performed.
“It had requested for an observer from WFI however the nationwide federation requested it to attend. The oversight committee was but to submit its report in order that they had been instructed to attend. Now individuals are attempting to make the most of the state of affairs and include their representations,” mentioned a WFI supply.
It has been learnt that many of the state our bodies have already despatched the names of the members for the structure of the electoral faculty.
“It is largely the Presidents and Secretaries of the state our bodies,” mentioned a supply.
The Delhi Novice Wrestling Affiliation shall be represented by its President Olympian Jai Prakash and normal secretary Ramesh Pehalwan.
It is not going to be a shock if Jai Prakash, who competed within the 1984 Los Angeles Video games, emerges as a front-runner to guide the brand new WFI set-up.