The Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) on Wednesday shrugged off the incident of serving meals from bathrooms by the organizers of a state-level sub-junior women match in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur, saying the nationwide physique was under no circumstances the one one. concerned within the staging of this system.
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More than 300 gamers and about 2 dozen officers from everywhere in the state had reached right here for this match.
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Kabaddi gamers collaborating within the Under-16 occasion have been allegedly served meals stored in a bathroom, following which the officers suspended the District Sports Officer for negligence and blacklisting the caterer. The incident created an uproar with politicians becoming a member of in to sentence the shameful remedy of the gamers. “AKFI has no role in the tournament. This was totally an incident related to the Uttar Pradesh government. They (organizers) have made their own arrangements,” SP Garg, the Delhi High Court-appointed administrator who has been operating the AKFI since 2018, advised PTI.
Asked how a state-level match can happen with out the approval of the nationwide federation, he stated, “We are not involved in any way in organizing the tournament. Hamara koi lene lane nahi hai (we are not worried about it). We have no idea (about the tournament).” UP State Kabaddi Association secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh stated that neither the AKFI nor the state unit had sanctioned the match.
He stated the occasion was not in his annual calendar. “The tournament was organized by the sports department of the state government. Our role was only to provide technical support. We sent some officials to conduct the organizing and selection committee, and nothing else,” he stated.
“We have our state degree occasions just like the Open Championship. This occasion (under-16 women’ match in Saharanpur) was not in our annual calendar. He stated that so far as he’s conscious the state authorities is taking strict motion and an inquiry committee will take suggestions from gamers from every of the 16 mandals (mandals) collaborating within the match. A purported video of the incident that surfaced on social media confirmed cooked meals in the bathroom of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar Stadium in Saharanpur, from the place the kabaddi gamers themselves used to take it. The State Level Sub-Junior Girls Kabaddi Competition was organized from 16 to 18 September, by which greater than 300 gamers from 16 divisions of the state participated.
The incident drew criticism, with the ruling BJP’s Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi asking whether or not Indian sports activities ought to be purged of politicians and their representatives to achieve their peak. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal additionally took a jibe on the incident, asking how would Indian gamers win gold medals in Olympics in the event that they have been handled like this.
While the RLD termed it a “gross insult” to the gamers, the Congress accused the ruling BJP of spending crores of rupees on false propaganda. Additional Chief Secretary (Sports) Navneet Sehgal had advised PTI that Saharanpur District Sports Officer Animesh Saxena has been suspended on Monday.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
