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| Council makes rules for Associations, violates them with impunity | | Practice before you preach Mr. Sports Minister | | Abodh Sharma
JAMMU, July 30: While the Standing Committee of the recently constituted State Sports Council was holding its maiden meeting in Srinagar the previous day, it was itself violating the rules it framed for the sports associations of the state, thus raising a serious question mark on its own fairness and integrity.
Sources in the Council divulged that while the Standing Committee restrained principal office bearers of the sports associations of the state from holding office for more than two consecutive terms of four years, the committee itself had members on board who had violated this clause. "Siddharth Sharma and Jameel Thakur have been holding the offices of president of the Billiards and snooker association and President J&K Football association respectively for three consecutive terms and hence should have been rendered ineligible for his induction in the recently constituted Council as the representative of this association" said a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Olympic Association pleading anonymity. "Not only his induction in the Council was incoherent to the norms laid by the Council itself, he was astoundingly nominated joint secretary of the Council even though he had served two consecutive terms on the same post" he added questioning the intent and objective of the Sports Council in devising regulations for the other sports associations of the state.
It is pertinent to mention that Siddharth Sharma was nominated as joint secretary till the General body meeting of the Council even though Professor Bashir Ahmad, the joint secretary Kashmir in the previous Council was replaced by Prof. JBS Bali, a new face in the Council, considered to be close to the Minister for Sports Taj Mohi-ud-Din. However, more interestingly, the appointment of new Joint Secretary Kashmir has also been made in violation of Council's own norms as Prof. Bali is well above 70 while Council has restrained those above 70 years from holding an office in sports associations.
Highly placed sources maintained that it would be difficult for the State Sports Council to enforce rules framed by it on the erring sports associations of the state unless it cleaned up its own house. "Many a sports associations of the state have been hijacked by a few faces who have made fortunes through them and new regulations restraining them to cling on would help a great deal in getting rid of these vested interests, but for this, Council shall have to lead by example" said a member of the newly formed State Sports Council. |
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