The responsibility of the new National Working President of the Indian Style Wrestling Federation has been handed over to JitendraRathi, son of the former President of the Federation, the late Nafe Singh Rathi. This decision was taken unanimously in the National Executive meeting of the Federation held in Bahadurgarh on Sunday. Earlier, the late Nafe Singh Rathi was appointed as the National President of the Federation.
In the meeting, everyone paid their emotional tribute to him and offered their tributes in front of his picture. Apart from this, Dhyanchand Awardee Gyan Singh was elected as Technical Chairman, and Arjun Awardee Olympian Kripashankar Patel was elected as Technical Secretary in the meeting. Senior Vice President Shiv Kumar Sharma, Vice President Arjun Yadav, General Secretary Gaurav Roshan Lal, Treasurer Hanif Raj Sheikh, Joint Secretary Chutri Captain, and members Sajjan Singh, Mohan Khopade, BaijnathSood, Khalid Sheikh, Satyanarayan, Vikas Deep, Juginrdra Pal, etc. were present in the meeting.
Along with this, a Haryana executive has also been formed. In this regard, JitendraRathi has also been appointed as the President of Haryana State. Pawan Yadav has been made Senior Vice President; Ram Kanwar, Ombir Singh, Virendra Arya, Purnmal, and Suresh Kumar have been made Vice Presidents. Sajjan Singh, alias Leelu, has been appointed General Secretary, and Raj Singh has been given the charge of Technical Chairman. Apart from this, the responsibility of Joint Secretary has been given to Jagbir Singh, MangalGulia, Jaiveer alias SolhaPehlwan, Anshul Kumar, Vinesh, Tejpal, and Manoj. MohitRathi has been made Treasurer and Vipin Pradhan Office Secretary, and Jitendra Singh, Vikas, Ajay, Indjit, AkshayTanwar, Sunil Kumar, and Ashwini Kumar have been made members.
Talking to journalists, the newly appointed Executive President of the Federation, JitendraRathi, said that from 1958 until now, senior national competitions have been held, in which India’s proud titles Bharat Kesari, Hind Kesari, and Rustam-e-Hind have been organized in some state or another every year.
All these titles are trademark titles of the Indian Style Wrestling Federation, which cannot be used without the permission of the federation. He said that this year the Indian Style Wrestling Federation has been recognized by UWW, which is a world-class wrestling organization. After which, the sportsmen associated with the federation will also get facilities for other national and international games. Therefore, now the inclination of sportsmen is increasing towards the above-title competitions.
JitendraRathi said that this year Hind Kesari title competitions for women and men will be organized, and in the month of September, Wrestling MahaKumbh will be organized in Bahadurgarh in the memory of the late Nafe Singh Rathi, in which famous wrestlers from all over the country will participate. For these national wrestling competitions, wrestlers will be selected after trials in each state.
He said that in February this year, the then National President of the Federation, Nafe Singh Rathi, went to Turkey and signed an MoU, under which 134 countries gave full recognition to the works of the federation.
On this occasion, Rajesh Kumar Handa Punjab, Satish Kumar Delhi, Pradeep Bantre Maharashtra, Rakesh Yadav Madhya Pradesh, Ravindra Kumar Delhi, and Y P Bakshi were present.