The PT Usha-led Indian Olympic Association (IOA) must set up an ad-hoc panel to manage the day-to-day affairs at the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), the Union sports ministry said on Sunday after suspending WFI’s newly elected governing body until further orders.

“…This requires for immediate and stringent corrective measures to uphold the principles of good governance in sports organizations, and thus, now it becomes incumbent on part of the IOA to to make suitable arrangements for the interim for managing the affairs of WFI so that sportspersons of wrestling discipline do not suffer in any manner and the principle of good governance in the sports body do not get jeopradised,” Tarun Pareek, Under Secretary to the Government of India, wrote in the letter, addressed to the IOA President.

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