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Went to courtroom for our gamers: Assam Wrestling Association 

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Express News Service

CHENNAI: The most-searched wrestling federation on Monday can be the Assam Wrestling Association. Especially after it went to courtroom and stayed the Wrestling Federation of India’s election. The newly-formed state unit flexed its muscle apparently as a result of their affiliation with the WFI has been spurned on a number of events. And based on the newly-elected president, Ratul Sarma, it’s as a result of in the event that they continued to maintain silent they might by no means have gotten affiliation. Sarma additionally mentioned that they have been searching for affiliation after the current June 4 election however there was no constructive consequence. Getting an affiliation with out an Annual General Meeting is perhaps tough.

“It’s for the wrestlers of the state of Assam and nothing else,” Sarma advised this every day on Monday. He mentioned that their nomination request to the returning officer (RO) who’s conducting the elections of the WFI was not accepted. And that compelled him to go to courtroom on Sunday, the final day of the nomination. He claimed that there was a decision through the 2014 AGM in Gonda to provide affiliation to the Assam unit however nothing occurred.

The Assam Wrestling Association has been energetic since 1989 they usually have carried out main occasions like National Games in 2007 in Guwahati. “In 2003, at the Asian cadet wrestling championships in Taiwan, Laishram Sharmila won gold and even after that, we have won medals at various nationals. So after being active and being involved in so many things, we don’t know why they had been spurning our requests for affiliations.”

“In the 2014 AGM there was a resolution that we should be accepted as a full-fledged unit and we had been requesting them since but for some reason or the other, nothing has transpired,” mentioned Sarma. “We have been writing to them since 1989 and even our previous president Pijush Hazarika had tried to get affiliation and even met the president of the WFI and requested him a number of times but we did not get any positive response from them. Since he (Mr Hazarika) was elected as Assam Table Tennis Association president, I became the president of Assam Wrestling Association in the election held on June 4.”

Sarma mentioned that that they had been speaking to the WFI even earlier than and after the elections however surprisingly when the election discover was despatched there was nothing for the Assam unit. “They did not send any notification to us and still we requested the RO but nothing happened. So we thought we should request the honourable High Court for a stay because despite requesting them on multiple occasion there was no response. We hope something positive will come out of this.”

When identified that normally an Annual General Meeting of a federation may give affiliation to a brand new physique and within the case of WFI that can happen solely after election, Sarma mentioned that the 2014 home had accepted its request for affiliation and that must be thought of.

“We have been communicating with them since 1989 and we felt that even after this election they will not give any response so we thought we should approach the court,” he mentioned. “We cannot leave our wrestlers’ future in the dark and this is for their interest.”

CHENNAI: The most-searched wrestling federation on Monday can be the Assam Wrestling Association. Especially after it went to courtroom and stayed the Wrestling Federation of India’s election. The newly-formed state unit flexed its muscle apparently as a result of their affiliation with the WFI has been spurned on a number of events. And based on the newly-elected president, Ratul Sarma, it’s as a result of in the event that they continued to maintain silent they might by no means have gotten affiliation. Sarma additionally mentioned that they have been searching for affiliation after the current June 4 election however there was no constructive consequence. Getting an affiliation with out an Annual General Meeting is perhaps tough.

“It’s for the wrestlers of the state of Assam and nothing else,” Sarma advised this every day on Monday. He mentioned that their nomination request to the returning officer (RO) who’s conducting the elections of the WFI was not accepted. And that compelled him to go to courtroom on Sunday, the final day of the nomination. He claimed that there was a decision through the 2014 AGM in Gonda to provide affiliation to the Assam unit however nothing occurred.

The Assam Wrestling Association has been energetic since 1989 they usually have carried out main occasions like National Games in 2007 in Guwahati. “In 2003, at the Asian cadet wrestling championships in Taiwan, Laishram Sharmila won gold and even after that, we have won medals at various nationals. So after being active and being involved in so many things, we don’t know why they had been spurning our requests for affiliations.”googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“In the 2014 AGM there was a resolution that we should be accepted as a full-fledged unit and we had been requesting them since but for some reason or the other, nothing has transpired,” mentioned Sarma. “We have been writing to them since 1989 and even our previous president Pijush Hazarika had tried to get affiliation and even met the president of the WFI and requested him a number of times but we did not get any positive response from them. Since he (Mr Hazarika) was elected as Assam Table Tennis Association president, I became the president of Assam Wrestling Association in the election held on June 4.”

Sarma mentioned that that they had been speaking to the WFI even earlier than and after the elections however surprisingly when the election discover was despatched there was nothing for the Assam unit. “They did not send any notification to us and still we requested the RO but nothing happened. So we thought we should request the honourable High Court for a stay because despite requesting them on multiple occasion there was no response. We hope something positive will come out of this.”

When identified that normally an Annual General Meeting of a federation may give affiliation to a brand new physique and within the case of WFI that can happen solely after election, Sarma mentioned that the 2014 home had accepted its request for affiliation and that must be thought of.

“We have been communicating with them since 1989 and we felt that even after this election they will not give any response so we thought we should approach the court,” he mentioned. “We cannot leave our wrestlers’ future in the dark and this is for their interest.”