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My Thumbs Up to IOC ban on IOA.
I know this is rather late to comment on an incident which, to many of us would really not quite bother to react on, but this post still needs some serious eye balls.
After all it takes the guts of an international body such as IOC, International Olympic Committee to remind Indian Government that they can’t have their whims and fancies overrule the International Sports charter all the time.
My sympathies with the sportsmen of this country, but I feel very ecstatic about the ban.
It’s time to churn the whole system, under which sports bodies are governed. Take a look around and you are ashamed of events that lead to the management of sport bodies.
Each and every sport body (to my knowledge) is administered by the people who are affiliated to political entities or corporate of stature.
It’s an opportunity to clean up the mess. A nation of 1 billion plus proud individuals and yet we muster a tally of only six medals and rank 55th in the recent London Olympics, behind countries like Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Belarus, Croatia, Romania etc. There are countless of such nations who have drubbed India. I am sure none of these countries are geographically bigger than any of our states, and probably in population too, but yet they score a respectable tally of medals, and mind it some of these countries were war torn and have a history of malnutrition.
But here in our country, what we could see is malnourished sportsmen in spirit, embroiled midst favoritism, biased selections by the overly nourished sports administrators. They all are the living memorabilia of being intoxicated in power.
Don’t believe me (In fact you don’t have to) look at these names: -
Abhishek Matoria – BJP MLA from Rajasthan is the president of Indian Amateur Boxing Federation.
Arun Jaitley – BJP MP is the president of DDCA (Delhi District Cricket Association) and a member of sub committee in BCCI.
Sharad Pawar has been the former BCCI chief, while being a minister, N Srinivasan the current BCCI president from Chennai owns India Cements, a company which manages Chennai Super Kings and has MS Dhoni captaining it. Can there not be any possible link or business interest linked to such deals and tie ups.
Vijay Kumar Malhotra of BJP is the president of Indian Archery Association; he is also the President of the General Association of National Sports Federations and the senior vice president of the IOA. This is his 10th term, 81-year-old Malhotra’s becoming the president of the AAI violates the age and tenure guidelines under the Sports Code.
Rajeev Shukla is the chairman of IPL and other sub committee of BCCI.
Anurag Thakur of BJP is Hon. Joint Secretary of BCCI.
Jyotiraditya Scindia is the chairman of Finance Committee in BCCI.
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is the president of Wrestling Federation of India and BJP MP from Kaiserganj, UP.
Political heavyweights including Natwar Singh, Satish Sharma and Yashwant Sinha have headed the All-India Tennis Association (AITA).
The recent elections in IOA (Indian Olympic Association) are eye opener; Abhay Chautala is elected as the President of IOA, although I do admit he was a sportsman and represented nation, but isn't it true that he has political ambitions too, and these posts are only chosen to be in limelight and throw your weight around, which is the foremost qualification to be an politician.
I just don’t understand why not a sports person from a particular sport is made the president of a federation or an association, why one should see politically motivated individuals grabbing the chair, why can’t the Indian government set us certain legislation to it, to understand this it’s beyond my intellect.
All that the government likes is to see, the retaining of CWG co-accused and jailed Lalit Bhanot becoming the Vice President of IOA, or Suresh Kalmadi holding such an important chair even after he was jailed for the alleged irregularities in the CWG Scam.
Do these people have the required expertise and experience regarding the concerned sports?
The answer is no. When the boss is ignorant what to do, the fate of the game is nothing but bleak. Hence, passion and professionalism need to replace politics for the betterment of Indian sports.
I am sure India though little, but in abundance have produced sportsmen like Zafar Iqbal, Dhanraj Pillay, Mohd. Shahid, Gagan Ajit Singh (Hockey), Prakash Padukone, Pullela Gopichand, Aparna Popat (Badminton), Dingko Singh, Mohammad Ali Qamar (Boxing), Limba Ram (Archery) Ramesh Krishnan, Vijay Amritraj, Mahesh Bhupati (Tennis) Kamlesh Mehta, Chetan Baboor (TT) Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Kapil Dev, etc (Cricket).
Why can’t they be elected as the President’s and Chairman of respective sport bodies, federations and associations. Why an eminent sportsman can’t be elected the IOA President, why these politicians who are deep rooted in one or the other controversy?
The answer lies in the minds of these people who besides satisfying their political aspirations, are playing with the esteem of country’s honor, and making us we the citizens of India a laughing stock.
