Former Union Minister B P Baishya elected IWF chief
Member of Parliament and IOA
North East Commission Chairman Birendra Prasad Baishya was
today elected unanimously as the Indian Weightlifting
Federation president at its General Body Meeting here today.
|Last Updated: Dec 27, 2009, 07:18 PM IST|Source: Bureau
New Delhi: Member of Parliament and IOA
North East Commission Chairman Birendra Prasad Baishya was
today elected unanimously as the Indian Weightlifting
Federation president at its General Body Meeting here today.
The election was necessitated after the earlier executive
committee under president Harbhajan Singh resigned en masse
under pressure from the Indian Olympic Association and Sports
Minister M S Gill following dope flunk by six lifters.
"Mr Baishya was elected unanimously. All the 33 members
units, including the affiliates like the Services, were
present," a release from the IWF said.
Treasurer in the earlier executive committee Sahadev
Yadav was elected secretary. S C Sharma from Delhi was made
the new treasurer.
India`s lone woman Olympic medallist Karnam Malleswari
made her debut into weightlifting administration by being
elected as one of the vice-presidents. K C Baba, an MP from
Uttarakhand, was also elected as vice president.
The election was conducted in the presence of IOA
observer Mukesh Kumar, secretary of Judo Federation of India.
Baishya, a Union Minister during the Prime Ministership
of Inder Kumar Gujral, said his first and foremost task would
be to clean up the dope menace which has seen India being
banned twice in the past and facing another now after six
lifters were found positive in an out-of-competition WADA dope
tests in September in Pune.
"I want to cleanse the system wholesale. The IWF, under
my regime, will function as a transparent unit and all members
have been strictly told to adhere to the norms and be
vigilant. No dope-tainted lifter will be tolerated," Baishya
said.
Under International Weightlifting Federation rules, if
four or more lifters flunked dope tests in a calendar year the
country could be banned for a maximum of four years.
A ban of more than one year would result in India facing
the ignominy of it being unable to field its lifters in the
2010 Commonwealth Games here.
The international federation kept a decision on India`s
case pending in its executive board meeting at Goyang City in
Korea.
PTI
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