Narsingh Pancham Yadav, a Commonwealth Video games gold medalist, was elected because the chairman of the Wrestling Federation of India’s Athletes’ Fee on April 24 (Wednesday), fulfilling a requirement set by the United World Wrestling (UWW). Eight candidates vied for the seven positions, and following the polling performed on poll paper, seven members have been elected. Subsequently, they elected Narsingh because the chairman of the fee.
Narsingh Pancham Yadav clinched the gold medal within the males’s freestyle 74 kg class on the 2010 Commonwealth Video games hosted in New Delhi. Regardless of qualifying for the Rio Olympics in 2016, his participation was lower quick after testing constructive for anabolic steroids. Subsequently, he confronted a four-year ban from aggressive wrestling. Yadav persistently asserted that his constructive take a look at resulted from sabotage.
Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President Sanjay Singh offered insights into the elections the place Yadav was elected because the chairman.
“Right now, Athlete Fee of India election came about. Eight candidates who filed nominations have been, Bharti Baghel from Uttar Pradesh, Khushbu S Pawar, from Gujarat, Narsingh Yadav from Maharashtra, Nikki from Haryana, Rajiv Ranjan from Jharkhand, Sahil from Delhi, Smitha from Kerala, and Shweta Dubey from West Bengal. Within the election, voting was finished and Rajiv Ranjan emerged as the only real loser and relaxation seven have received. There have been whole 50 voters – two wrestlers every state,” Sanjay Singh mentioned as per PTI.
WFI’s Efforts To Tackle UWW Suspension
Following the ban imposed by the UWW in August final yr as a result of delayed elections, WFI is presently making efforts to rectify the state of affairs. The suspension on the group was lifted earlier this yr with the peace of mind in writing that there can be no discrimination towards protesting wrestlers.
Final yr, six outstanding wrestlers, together with Olympic Video games medalists Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik, in addition to Asian Video games gold medalist Vinesh Phogat, staged a chronic protest at Jantar Mantar. They have been demanding the arrest of the then WFI president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, alleging him of sexually harassing feminine wrestlers.
