I have nothing to do with wrestling now: Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh

Former Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Sunday said that the newly elected body will look into wrestling matters from now on, adding that he was done with the sport.

“Whatever has to be done with regards to wrestling in India, it has to be done by the new elected body. I have nothing to do with the sport now. I have other responsibilities to focus now. I will be away from the politics of this sport,” Singh said to PTI after meeting with BJP chief JP Nadda following the Sports Ministry’s suspension of the WFI earlier in the day.

Earlier on Sunday, noting that the ‘newly elected body appears to be in complete control of former office bearers’, the Sports Ministry suspended the newly-elected body of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).

The ministry accused the new WFI committee, headed by Sanjay Singh, a close aide of former chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, of showing ‘blatant disregard for the established legal and procedural norms’.

Last Thursday, the panel backed by Brij Bhushan, a BJP MP, and led by Sanjay Singh, assumed control of the WFI after its much-delayed elections took place in controversial circumstances.

Minutes after his appointment, Sanjay Singh met Brij Bhushan at the latter’s residence, which also doubles up as the WFI office.

The government lashed out at the arrangement. “The business of the Federation is being run from the premises controlled by former office bearers,” the ministry said. “Which is also alleged premises wherein sexual harassment of the players have been alleged and present the court is hearing the matter.”

Apart from this, Sanjay Singh’s decision to hold the under-15 and under-20 national championships would be held in Gonda, the backyard of Brij Bhushan, also irked the ministry.

“This announcement is hasty, without giving sufficient notice to wrestlers who are to take part in the said nationals and without following the provisions of the constitution of WFI,” the ministry noted.

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