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They all want to control hockey
WSN Network

NEW DELHI: As hockey lies injured, the race for who will rule the hockey bodies is getting more and more bitter. As elections to the ad hoc body Hockey India were again postponed, former Indian skipper Pargat Singh blasted Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president and 2010 Commonwealth Games organizing committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi calling him a ‘‘sports mafia who is trying to take control of Indian hockey by any means’’.

Pargat, who is now the secretary of the newly-formed Hockey Punjab, said Kalmadi was behind the deferring of Hockey India’s February 7 elections, which has put a question mark over India hosting the World Cup in New Delhi. Meanwhile, questions are also being raised about the way Punjab Hockey Association elected Sukhbir Singh Badal its president. Clearly, sinister moves are on to control prestigious posts even as no one seems bothered about the state of hockey where players are going on strike and the team will not even be playing in Olympics.

27January 2010
 

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