As part of the process, the executive council constituted a three member advisory panel with P T Usha, P Gopichand and Dilip Tirkey to guide the office bearers on the problems faced by the athletes and also formed nine members Athletes Commission to oversee the needs of the players.
The General body also discussed the International Olympic
Council’s statement that the elections were null and void and wish to clarify
that the polls took place with a well laid out procedure and there is nothing
to believe otherwise.
The elections were conducted under the guidance of a
three-member Election Commission comprising Retired Chief Justice Anil Dev
Singh, Justice V K Bali and Justice J D Kappor and even the Union Government
had sent its observer Joy Sebastian to oversee the election process. Even the
members of the media were present at the venue in large numbers and it only
proves that the election were held in free and fair manner and also with the
approval of all the stakeholders party to the Indian Olympic Association in
India.
Despite the issues with the International Olympic Council,
the IOA had to go ahead with the elections because of the Delhi High Court
directive and also the fact that the tenure of the earlier body had expired and
a new body had to be constituted soon. Outgoing secretary general Randhir Singh
had himself issued the notification, decided to contest the elections as well.
But to every body’s surprise, Randhir Singh withdrew from the election process
and the two observers, one from IOC and the other from OCA also did not turn up
for the election process. The reasons for the same are best known to them only.
The Secretary Sports, Government of India has invited newly
elected IOA President Shri Abhey Singh Chautala for a meeting to discuss
the letter sent by IOC.
A delegation headed by Shri Chautala will meet Secretary of Sports on 7th of December at 12 noon to discuss the issue and decide the plan of action.
IOA has already constituted a 2 member committee of RK Anand andN Batra to clarify the position of IOA to IOC and also
state the actual facts on the entire development which was misrepresented
before the IOC resulting in the action taken by IOC against IOA.
A delegation headed by Shri Chautala will meet Secretary of Sports on 7th of December at 12 noon to discuss the issue and decide the plan of action.
IOA has already constituted a 2 member committee of RK Anand and
The newly elected executive council committee is committed
to the welfare and development of the sport persons and we assure whatever
possible will be done to resolve the issue created by IOC.
The athletes’ interest will be protected at any cost on
priority basis. We also ensure that Indian Sports Persons will and shall
compete with the pride of the National Flag and nothing less.
ATHLETES COMMISSION:
Chairman: Gurbachan Singh Randhawa – Athletics
Members: Wilson Cherian - Swimming
K Malleswari- Weighlifting
Manjit Dua- Table Tennis
Jatinder Singh- Boxing
Aparna Popat- Badminton
Anuj Kumar- Wrestling
Lawn tennis and Archery will nominate their members soon.
Press release
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