{"id":41920,"date":"2023-12-30T23:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/india-ministry-suspends-wrestling-federation-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-12-30T23:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:08:06","slug":"india-ministry-suspends-wrestling-federation-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/india-ministry-suspends-wrestling-federation-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"India ministry suspends wrestling federation | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\nNEW DELHI:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), trying to recover from a sexual harassment scandal, suffered a fresh setback when the sports ministry suspended it and sacked a new slate of officers it elected.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry took the actions on Sunday after the federation elected a president backed by his predecessor, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who has been charged with sexual harassment and criminal intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>Singh denies any wrongdoing and is out on bail. &#8220;Newly elected body appears to be in complete control of former office bearers,&#8221; the ministry said in a letter seen by Reuters. &#8220;The business of the Federation is being run from the premises controlled by former office bearers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ministry declined to comment. Singh and his successor, Sanjay Singh, could not comment on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Sanjay Singh, unrelated to the other Singh, told Reuters TV partner ANI: &#8220;The previous president has announced his retirement from wrestling administration&#8230; I&#8217;d request others to move on and not let it affect the future of the wrestlers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The WFI is already suspended by the game&#8217;s global governing body, the United World Wrestling, for failing to hold the election on time. While a top woman wrestler has quit the game in protest at the outcome of the election, Singh, a lawmaker from Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s Bharatiya Janata Party, was seen celebrating the victory of his loyalist.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, the ministry asked the Indian Olympic Association to form an ad hoc committee to run the federation, saying the election results raised &#8220;serious concerns&#8221; about the &#8220;governance and integrity of the WFI&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This requires immediate and stringent corrective measures to uphold the principle of good governance in sports organisation,&#8221; the ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v5.0&#038;appId=419051588770002&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), trying to recover from a sexual harassment scandal, suffered a fresh setback when the sports ministry suspended it and sacked a new slate of officers it elected. The ministry took the actions on Sunday after the federation elected a president backed by his predecessor, Brij Bhushan Sharan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/indian1703582936-0\/indian1703582936-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}