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| Relatives, political workers, sycophants begin lobbying for re-induction | | As SCC completes term | | Abodh Sharma
Jammu, Mar 21: With the present J&K State Sports Council completing its term this month, hectic lobbying has begun by those aspiring for the new Council; many among them are those who have been members of this Sports governing body for several terms despite their dismal report cards.
Sources in the Council divulge that while there is need to include new faces who can bring in new ideas into the initiative of promoting sports in a big way, those who have taken their inclusion in the Council as a matter of right have started lobbying for another term. "These chosen few have become permanent faces of the Council despite the fact that they have failed to run their own associations in organized manner and have no results to show up," said a senior officer of the Council pleading anonymity. "What can be expected from such people in the Council when they have failed their own associations," he added.
It is beyond common comprehension that when Council guidelines refrain an individual from holding more than two terms as principal office bearer in an association, how a few of them are nominated as members of the Council term after term. "Council fails to take action against such associations which do not conform to its guidelines because the defaulters themselves get nominated as members of the Council and even in the standing committee which is top decision making forum of the Council and then call the shots as suit their vested interests," disclosed an official of the Council. It is also strange that when Council imposes such restriction on the office bearers of its affiliated associations, it has documented no such embargo for those seeking its own membership.
Sources also divulge that most of these 'familiar faces' enjoy patronage of politicians, bureaucrats or both. A close look at these 'familiar faces' establishes beyond doubt that the Council has been used by these high and the mighty as a launching pad for their aspiring relatives, political workers and sycophants who have pursued their own interests rather than the interests of sports and sportsmen. Besides nominating the preferred few to the Council repeatedly, the Government has also distorted its representative character by nominating bureaucrats and even technocrats as its heads. The present Council also remained headless for over an year after it was constituted because its maiden meeting that was to be convened under the Chief Minister, who is the president of the Council could not be held all this while. However, a year later, when the meeting was held, a bureaucrat was imposed as its secretary. |
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