Accountability

Last week, secretaries and other office bearers of almost every sport bodies rushed to meet prime minister Mr. Manmohan Singh. It was an emergency like situation for them. They worked tirelessly. They wanted PM to intervene in the tussle between sport minister Mr. Gill and sport authorities. Sport minister wanted to fix age limit for office bearers (most of them are politicians who doesn’t even know A B C of respective sports. For example Mr Abhay Chautala is President of the Indian Boxing Federation) and that was the main problem for these office bearers. They are running sports bodies in this country for years now. Some of them are heading their sport body for last 15-20 years. They don’t want a cap for their tenures. They never got baffled like this when India didn’t win any medal in Olympics or won very few medals in Asiad with such a huge population. They also never got bothered when athletes and players complained about the facilities and training provided to them. They were also not worried when news of bribe and wrong doing surfaced in media surrounding their sports bodies. But when news came of limiting the age of officials, they were highly active to lobby and persuade sport minister to take back this decision. Reason.......? Comments ........?