“We understand that you have in your own organisation changed your internal rules in 1999, in order to have a reasonable age limit of 70 years, a maximum presidential term of 12 years, and an office bearer’s term of 8 years, to be followed, by a break,” wrote Injeti Srinivas, the joint-secretary in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.He accused the IOC of double standards stating, “Your present position, seems to indicate, that what is eminently desirable for the IOC, and has been put in place by the votes of the National Olympic Committees (NOCs), need not be followed by the NOCs themselves, and they may continue to have office bearers, of unacceptable lengths of tenure, going on to advanced ages.”
The Sports Ministry’s decision to limit the tenure of the officials had not gone down well with most of the office bearers of the Indian Olympic Association and other bodies that receive government funding to run their show. So agitated were the likes of Suresh Kalmadi, the IOA president, Randhir Singh, the IOA secretary and Vijay Kumar Malhotra, the president of the Archery Association of India
that they even went to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, seeking his intervention.Srinivas’s letter reiterated that the ministry was not going to act in haste and the various associations would not be forced to seek elections any time soon. “Our guidelines dated 1st May 2010 have explained, that no immediate action is required, and these will apply only to future elections, which are some distance away.
Our preparations, for the Commonwealth Games are in full force, and we will give the world, a great show. The Asian Games will follow, soon after in China,” added Srinivas in the letter.
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