{"id":31148,"date":"2016-12-28T10:42:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T10:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31148"},"modified":"2016-12-28T10:42:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T10:42:15","slug":"maken-wants-ioa-appointments-of-chautala-kalmadi-revoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31148","title":{"rendered":"Maken wants IOA appointments of Chautala, Kalmadi revoked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-22731\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/suresh-kalmadi.jpg\" alt=\"suresh kalmadi\" width=\"260\" height=\"167\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/suresh-kalmadi.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/suresh-kalmadi-150x96.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday urged Youth and Sports Affairs Minister Vijay Goel to revoke the appointments of <strong><a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/2795-suresh-kalmadi\">Suresh Kalmadi<\/a><\/strong> and Abhay Singh Chautala in the &nbsp;(IOA), given their tainted past.<\/p>\n<p>Former Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken slammed the Tuesday appointments of the two as honorary life presidents of the<strong> <a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/1747-ioa\">Indian Olympic Association<\/a><\/strong> (IOA).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read :<a href=\"hot-picks\/42785-kalmadi-chautala-made-ioa-life-presidents-government-says-shocked-with-ioa-s-decision\">Kalmadi, Chautala made IOA life presidents, government says shocked with IOA&rsquo;s decision<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot believe that &#8216;chargesheeted&#8217; people are made presidents of the IOA. Feel happy that Sports Minister issued strong statement on it, he must act now to reverse the decision,&#8221; Maken told reporters here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If one cares about sports in the country, then one has to rise above the political lines and the people who are &#8216;chargesheeted&#8217; in the court should not be made lifetime members of the IOA,&#8221; the Congress leader said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By making Chautalaji and Kalmadiji the lifetime members of the IOA, we are sounding the death knell for sports in the country,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Maken also said that the &#8220;chargesheeted people have no right to be lifetime members of the IOA&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Till the time they are not exonerated by the court, they have no right to be members of the IOA,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Maken also urged the Sports Minister and the Centre to put pressure on then IOA to revoke the decision.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, the proposal to appoint the duo was unanimously accepted at the IOA Annual General Meeting in Chennai.<\/p>\n<p>Chautala is the former Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) chief and his term at the helm of the IOA was full of controversy. He also faced &#8220;charges of corruption&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kalmadi, whose conduct during the 2010 Commonwealth Games came under scrutiny, has also headed the National Olympic Association for 15 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-22731\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/suresh-kalmadi.jpg\" alt=\"suresh kalmadi\" width=\"260\" height=\"167\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/suresh-kalmadi.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/suresh-kalmadi-150x96.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday urged Youth and Sports Affairs Minister Vijay Goel to revoke the appointments of <strong><a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/2795-suresh-kalmadi\">Suresh Kalmadi<\/a><\/strong> and Abhay Singh Chautala in the &nbsp;(IOA), given their tainted past.<\/p>\n<p>Former Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken slammed the Tuesday appointments of the two as honorary life presidents of the<strong> <a href=\"component\/tags\/tag\/1747-ioa\">Indian Olympic Association<\/a><\/strong> (IOA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[7468,449,466,19947,337,17104],"class_list":["post-31148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-olympics","tag-abhay-singh-chautala","tag-indian-olympic-association","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-olympic-news","tag-suresh-kalmadi","tag-vijay-goel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maken wants IOA appointments of Chautala, Kalmadi revoked - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=31148\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maken wants IOA appointments of Chautala, Kalmadi revoked - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday urged Youth and Sports Affairs Minister Vijay Goel to revoke the appointments of Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Singh Chautala in the &nbsp;(IOA), given their tainted past. 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