The Centre has been promoting the ‘Khelo India’ movement to encourage sports in a big way but unfortunately most sports associations in the country are involved in power struggle which not only affects organisational stability but also has detrimental effects on young sportspersons, the Madras High Court has lamented.
Dealing with a case related to Tamil Nadu Football Association, third Division Bench of Justices R. Mahadevan and Mohammed Shaffiq wrote that constant conflict in sports bodies “would create a sense of lack of clarity in the minds of the young sports persons and also would lower their morale and defeat their spirit.”
The judges went on to write: “A sportsperson should not be defeated by discriminating him/her from participating in the arena of sports, but the defeat should be in the real field, after allowing all those, who have the potential to participate in the event so that they can contribute with their spirit, body, mind and soul ably.”
