The Wrestling Federation of India's (WFI) election has been rescheduled again and the voting will now take place on 11 July, according to reports.
However, the Returning Officer is yet to confirm the latest development and more details are awaited.
The process was already delayed with the submission date of nominations to the Electoral Collage moved from 19 June to midnight of 21 June after state associations of Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra and Telangana approached the Returning Officer claiming they should be allowed to be vote in the election as they were earlier wrongly disaffiliated during Brij Bhushan's tenure. That meeting took place on 21 June, following which the final submissions of nominations was expected to be submitted.
Earlier, Returning Officer retired high court judge Mahesh Mittal Kumar had announced that the WFI would be held on 6 July. Before that, the WFI ad-hoc committee had stated that elections will take place on 4 July.
Sidelined WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is facing charges of sexual harassment by India's top wrestlers, had completed three tenures (12 years) in office in March this year and is not allowed to stand again, even if he was allowed, due to the Sports Code.
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