Object bad for India’s image, states P T Usha; wrestlers ‘shocked’

NEW DELHI: Indian Olympic Association’s (IOA) president P T Usha, a well known track and field professional athlete with over 100 medals at nationwide and global occasions, on Thursday, criticised the wrestlers for going public with their demonstration requiring filing of an FIR and arrest of sidelined Wrestling Federation of India’s (WFI) president, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. Usha stated the sit-in agitation by wrestlers at Jantar Mantar here has actually brought bad promotion to the nation. They must have very first approached the IOA’s Athletes Commission with their complaint prior to staging a demonstration, which entered its 5th day on Thursday, she stated. Usha likewise required the wrestlers to be “disciplined”. WFI Controversy: Wrestler to political leader, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh not brand-new to akhara or dangal “IOA has a professional athletes commission in location. Rather of striking the streets, these wrestlers must’ve pertained to us. The professional athletes must be disciplined. If their issues were genuine, they need to’ve pertained to our professional athletes commission. What they are doing is bad for the image of the nation. Striking the streets is bad for Indian sports,” PT Usha informed press reporters after the IOA’s executive committee (EC) conference here, which talked about the wrestlers’ demonstration and chose to form a three-member ad-hoc committee to run the WFI’s daily affairs and hold its elections within 45 days of the development of the body. Usha revealed her frustration over the wrestlers’ effort to offer the agitation a political colour. “Those objecting are prominent wrestlers who brought laurels to the nation. They have an equivalent duty of protecting
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