Stop this disaffiliation spree by the State Olympic Associations
STATESWATCH: We hardly come across the what role of State Olympic Associations play in promotion of sports in the region they govern.
All of a sudden, we hear these moribund bodies started disaffiliating various State Hockey Associations in tune with what happened in Delhi where the Indian Olympic Association functions indulged in the same a month ago.
The SOAs started replicating the IOA which has unilaterally disaffiliated both Indian Women Hockey Federation and Indian Hockey Federation.
The Rajasthan Olympic Association and Goa Olympic Associations have in the last couple of days did the same – like a bull in the China shop disaffiliated the state men and women bodies, and one can understand these because the disaffiliated bodies are openly supporting the JB Roy faction!
It almost boils down to the fact that any SHA that supports JB Roy is expected to face the same fate. Even if these bodies go to the court, those who sit in the seat of judgement today in the Olympic Bhawan can easily exclude them from voting in Hockey India elections citing court cases and conflicting claims.
The disaffiliation is a manipulation at its worst.
The IOA and SOAs make use of Indian justice system which, due to overload, delivers so late that sometimes its judgments fail to make any sense.
The IOA and SOAs have indulged in this because they obviously don’t have required strength to win the election which is mandated to take place in a couple of months.
JB Roy has time and again proved his majority, alone with IHF or together with IWHF.
It is clearly a well thought out strategy to weed out those not in favour the usurper powers that be and to prevent real democracy is taking shape at State level.
It has to stop for real democracy to take place.