This is bizarre but true. National Rifle Association of India's (NRAI) honorary secretary has taken the Kazakhstan route to contest against his own president Raninder Singh for the executive council post in the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF).
This is bizarre but true. National Rifle Association of India's (NRAI) honorary secretary has taken the Kazakhstan route to contest against his own president Raninder Singh for the executive council post in the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF).
Sushil Chowdhary, father of ace Indian woman trap shooter Shagun Chowdhary, was so hell bent to stop his own federation president from becoming the first Indian to get elected as an EC member of ISSF that he filed nomination as a senior advisor to the Shooting Federation of the Republic of Kazakhstan (SFRK).
It's another matter that he lost the elections and could not stop an Indian representative from getting elected to this important post for the first time in the 107-year history of ISSF.
However, he had to pay heavily for his imprudent act as he was forced to resign from his honorary secretary post on his return to India earlier this month. This is just another glaring example of power-hungry sports officials in India and could even affect his daughter's future in the coming days.
In the end, NRAI president Raninder got 22 out of the total 25 votes in the General Assembly meeting held in Munich, Germany.
In fact, Chowdhary, who holds an Indian citizenship, wanted to contest the December-held election as an Indian official but the powerful Raninder faction did not grant him permission to do so.
dna has learnt that it was then that Chowdhary, who has been close to Kazakh federation officials as he was supplying them shooting ammunition for a long time, used his good offices with the Kazakh top officials to his advantage and got their nomination to contest the ISSF elections.
A shell-shocked NRAI later termed his move as "morally unethical" and removed Chowdhary from its Governing Body and General House.
"There is absolutely no doubt that what Mr Chowdhary did was morally unethical. We in NRAI don't really know under what compulsion the Kazakh officials fielded him as their candidate," said a senior NRAI official.
Chowdhary, however, was not available for comments despite repeated efforts to reach him.
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