New Delhi: Sports Minister Jitendra Singh expressed disappointment over the Indian Olympic Association holding the Sports bill responsible for the country's suspension from the Olympic movement, terming it as "very, very unfortunate".
"I am deeply shocked and upset after reading the contents of the letter. It is delayed tactics. As far as the Sports bill is concerned, priority of the government is to get the bill passed by both the houses of the Parliament and make it into a law," said Jitendra. "IOA coming out with the excuse that only because of the Sports Bill, the Indian body has been suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is very, very unfortunate for sports," he added.
The minister said that if the IOA was not interested in fixing new dates for the meeting with the IOC, he himself would go to Lausanne, Switzerland and try to resolve the matter. "I will appeal to the IOA to quickly fix the dates. If they are not going then the ministry will or I will personally go there (Lausanne) and speak to the IOC," said Jitendra.
A day after the joint meeting, earlier scheduled to be held in Lausanne on April 15 and 16, was postponed for the second time in two months last week, IOA acting chief V K Malhotra wrote a letter to the IOC accusing the Sports Ministry of acting against finding a way to the country's return to the Olympic movement. Malhotra wrote in the letter that
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New Delhi: Eminent sports personalities came out in support of the revised National Sports Development Bill on Thursday and criticised the opposing Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and the BCCI, while calling for a healthy debate on the issue. The stars stated that the bill was not only about cricket, but 66 other disciplines as well. The panel, including eight former sports icons and Pankaj Advani, said the IOA should read...
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New Delhi: Reiterating its stand on the contentious Sports Bill, the BCCI said that until and unless its reservations were addressed by the Sports Ministry, the bill was not acceptable to them even in the revised form. BCCI member and IPL governing council chairman Rajeev Shukla made it clear that the board had rejected the bill at its Working Committee meeting in Kolkata on October 29, and had shot off...
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08:08 PM, Nov 04, 2011
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11:42 PM, Oct 17, 2011
New Delhi: Sports Minister Ajay Maken unveiled his new revised Sports Bill on Monday. Hinting at the BCCI's opposition to it, Maken said that the Bill will enhance greater transparency in the functioning of sports federations. He added that sporting bodies which do not want to come under the RTI raise suspicion. "We strongly feel the functioning of the sports federations should be transparent. If they oppose it then there...
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10:02 PM, Sep 01, 2011
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, whose outspoken views on 'twitter' have been much talked about, on Thursday said he would continue to use the micro-blogging site despite some hostile posts which included personal attacks against him. "Just in case anyone is under the mistaken impression that I've been bullied off twitter - sorry but here I am and I'm not going anywhere," Omar said in a tweet....
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11:48 PM, Aug 31, 2011
New Delhi: Some of the top bosses of Indian sports - Sharad Pawar, Farooq Abdullah, CP Joshi, Praful Patel and Vilasrao Deshmukh on Tuesday attended the Cabinet meet on Sports Bill and their unanimous verdict was that the Bill is intrusive, draconian, authoritarian and unjust. Cornered at the Cabinet on Tuesday, it was the turn of Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken to hit out on Wednesday. "They are using Government...
09:42 PM, Aug 31, 2011
New Delhi: Sports Minister Ajay Maken on Wednesday directly attacked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for refusing to come under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Maken said that the board gets tax exemptions and land, and therefore is accountable to the people. Ajay Maken lashed out at the BCCI, a day after his Sports Bill aiming to bring sports bodies under RTI was sent back...
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New Delhi: As India debates whether the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) should come under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah removed his tweet slamming his father Farooq Abdullah for participating in Cabinet discussions even though he heads a sports body. Farooq Abdullah is the President of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association. In what is being seen as father...
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New Delhi: The Cabinet on Tuesday rejected the Sports Bill which sought to regulate the operations of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and other sports bodies. Ajay maken's dream project has fallen through atleast for now - Sharad Pawar and Farooq Abdullah amongst its chief critics. It's clear that his move to include cricket along with other sports in the Bill and bring it under the...
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New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday decided not to table the National Sports Development Bill in this session of Parliament and asked the Sports Ministry to prepare another draft. Sports Minister Ajay Maken has been asked to rework the Sports Bill, after a number of ministers raised objections at the Cabinet meet. At present, five Cabinet Ministers are heading different sports bodies. After an hour-long meeting, the Union Cabinet...
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New Delhi: The Cabinet will take up a new Sports Bill on Tuesday, the proposed law will bring the richest sport body in the country - the Board of Control for cricket (BCCI) under government control. India won the world cup 2011 - a feat which ensured that the BCCI continues to rake in billions of dollars, making it the richest sports body in the world. But it's also a...
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