The Imphal Free Press
New Delhi, Aug 12: Demanding CBI investigation of the doping conspiracy which led to the expulsion of Laishram Monika from the Indian contingent for Beijing Olympics 2008, a large number of Manipuri students staged a protest against the authorities managing Indian sports today at 3 pm at the ITO junction here.
In the protest organized by the Manipur Students Association Delhi (MASAD), the students shouted slogans like, “Indian politics can’t suppress Manipur sports”, “Punish doping conspirators”, “Stop discrimination”, “RK Naidu and Satish Rana - go to hell”, “SIN Authority of India”, “We demand immediate suspension of RK Naidu”.
The MASAD also distributed a leaflet “Doping conspiracy is an insult….”. The leaflet said, “The recent controversy on Monika who was being framed as positive in a dope test conducted on June 6 under the Sports Authority of India is a conspiracy that was cooked up to humiliate the sporting spirit of shining sportspersons of Manipur. The conspiracy clearly shows the deep rooted corruption in Indian sports.”
It also stated, “People of Manipur work so hard to support all the sportspersons in their formative phases and this toiling should never get cheated like the way it is being done to Monika by refusing her to go to Beijing for the games on the false charge of using banned drugs. The doping conspiracy has displayed sports officials’ callousness to show how big a sporting event the Olympic is to a sportsperson like Monika and her supporters and how sharp they will be hurt if they are falsely implicated.”
It further stated that the dramatic developments from being tested ‘positive’ to being reincarnated ‘negative’, and finally directing to ‘fly’ to Beijing and later being rejected ‘entry’ was all that happened to an international weightlifter from Manipur.
Dr Thokchom Meinya, Member of Parliament from Manipur also joined the protest. Endorsing the Manipur government’s move on CBI inquiry into the Monika issue, Dr. Meinya also demanded a white paper on the manipulative game of the authorities.
The students started rallying towards the Indira Gandhi stadium where the head office of the Sports Authority of India is located, but were stopped by the Delhi Police. The protest continued at the spot upto 4.30 pm as there was security seal in the areas along the Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg from 5 pm today to 2 pm tomorrow for rehearsal of Independence Day which is to take place at the Red Fort.
The Manipuri students then boarded three buses and headed towards SAI office, but the police obstructed them again. The buses then moved towards the Shastri Bhawan, where the office of the Union minister of youth affairs and sports Dr. MS Gill is situated. After the buses reached there, the students came out from the buses and shouted slogans before the ministry. The students were then picked by the Delhi Police and kept in police custody at the Parliament Street police station.
On hearing the news, Manipur minister for YAS, N Biren and Manipur MP, Dr. Meinya rushed to the police station to get the students released from police custody.
New Delhi, Aug 12: Demanding CBI investigation of the doping conspiracy which led to the expulsion of Laishram Monika from the Indian contingent for Beijing Olympics 2008, a large number of Manipuri students staged a protest against the authorities managing Indian sports today at 3 pm at the ITO junction here.
In the protest organized by the Manipur Students Association Delhi (MASAD), the students shouted slogans like, “Indian politics can’t suppress Manipur sports”, “Punish doping conspirators”, “Stop discrimination”, “RK Naidu and Satish Rana - go to hell”, “SIN Authority of India”, “We demand immediate suspension of RK Naidu”.
The MASAD also distributed a leaflet “Doping conspiracy is an insult….”. The leaflet said, “The recent controversy on Monika who was being framed as positive in a dope test conducted on June 6 under the Sports Authority of India is a conspiracy that was cooked up to humiliate the sporting spirit of shining sportspersons of Manipur. The conspiracy clearly shows the deep rooted corruption in Indian sports.”
It also stated, “People of Manipur work so hard to support all the sportspersons in their formative phases and this toiling should never get cheated like the way it is being done to Monika by refusing her to go to Beijing for the games on the false charge of using banned drugs. The doping conspiracy has displayed sports officials’ callousness to show how big a sporting event the Olympic is to a sportsperson like Monika and her supporters and how sharp they will be hurt if they are falsely implicated.”
It further stated that the dramatic developments from being tested ‘positive’ to being reincarnated ‘negative’, and finally directing to ‘fly’ to Beijing and later being rejected ‘entry’ was all that happened to an international weightlifter from Manipur.
Dr Thokchom Meinya, Member of Parliament from Manipur also joined the protest. Endorsing the Manipur government’s move on CBI inquiry into the Monika issue, Dr. Meinya also demanded a white paper on the manipulative game of the authorities.
The students started rallying towards the Indira Gandhi stadium where the head office of the Sports Authority of India is located, but were stopped by the Delhi Police. The protest continued at the spot upto 4.30 pm as there was security seal in the areas along the Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg from 5 pm today to 2 pm tomorrow for rehearsal of Independence Day which is to take place at the Red Fort.
The Manipuri students then boarded three buses and headed towards SAI office, but the police obstructed them again. The buses then moved towards the Shastri Bhawan, where the office of the Union minister of youth affairs and sports Dr. MS Gill is situated. After the buses reached there, the students came out from the buses and shouted slogans before the ministry. The students were then picked by the Delhi Police and kept in police custody at the Parliament Street police station.
On hearing the news, Manipur minister for YAS, N Biren and Manipur MP, Dr. Meinya rushed to the police station to get the students released from police custody.
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