New Delhi:At a time when it is fighting its autonomy battle with the Union Sports Ministry, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has exposed the widening rift within its organisation through an unseemly controversy regarding the formation of commissions and committees, not to speak of constitutional amendments.
The IOA would not have found itself tackling a controversy of this nature had it not cancelled a scheduled media briefing on December 16 last following its Annual General Meeting the previous day.
On a day when the focus was on the protest against Dow Chemical's association with the London Olympics, several important points relating to commission formation and the amended constitution largely escaped the attention of the media after the AGM.
The Hindu
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