SJFI poll agrees with Sports Minister Gill

Panaji, May 7 (UNI) Union Sports Minister M S Gill today received a huge boost with the leading sports journalists of the country strongly supporting his efforts to put reigns over the IOA and the various National Sports Federations.

The sports journalists from all over the country who are here in connection with the 34th National convention of the Sports Journalists’ Federation of India (SJFI) have virtually given their thumps up to Gill and his efforts to fix age limit and tenure limit over the office bearers of office bearers of the various sports federations.

Asked to comment on a simple one-liner, ‘do you agree with Sports Minister, Gill’s move to limit tenures of National
federation heads’, over 99 per cent of the 70-odd journalists from 16 States attending the convention felt that what the Sports Minister was doing was right. Only less than one per cent said they did not agree with the move.

The opinion poll was the second to be done at the convention
in as many days. On the opening day when asked, ‘will the Indian Premier League continue to flourish even in the absence of the now
suspended Lalit Modi’, 94 per cent of the participants picked up ‘yes’ as their response while the rest said ‘no’