New Delhi:
A new executive body of the Indian Weightlifting Federation, the members of which resigned en masse last month, will be constituted by the IWF General Body in its special meeting here on December 27.
The Indian Olympic Association, which exerted pressure following a a series of dope flunks by the Indian lifters in October led to the resignation, on December 5 issued a notification for convening a special GBM on December 27.
"The executive committee will be reconstituted on December 27 by the General Body. The IOA have issued notification to convene a GBM on that day," a top official of the earlier executive committee said.
The IOA had said that nobody from the earlier executive body would be allowed in the new committee as they could not stop doping by lifters due to which India now face ban by the international body.
But some former executive members are gearing up to be elected again to complete the four-year term which began from mid 2008.
Meanwhile, India will not participate in the Asian Youth and Junior Championships to be held in Dubai from December 16 to 23.
Incidentally, this Asian junior event was to be held in Pune but since India was facing a ban from the international body, the IWF expressed its inability to host it.
The fate of the Senior National Men's and Women's Championships scheduled to be held in Udaipur, Rajasthan from January 10-14 is also uncertain.
The championships is likely to be postponed by a few days as the new executive committee may take some time to settle down to business.
The IWF executive committee had last month resigned en masse following a series of dope flunks by Indian lifters in out-of-competition tests conducted by WADA in September.
India is now facing a maximum ban of four years from international competitions but the International Weightlifting Federation is yet to take a decision.