The CSI said that the Sports Secretary worked with the suspended IOA led by Abhey Singh Chautala to include Hockey India General Secretary Narinder Batra and Jharkhand Olympic Association President R K Anand in the IOA delegation for tomorrow's meeting with the International Olympic Committee.
Batra and Anand were elected as the vice-presidents in the IOA elections held a day after the IOC banned India on December 4 last for conducting the polls under the Sports Ministry's controversial Sports Code.
"He wanted Narender Batra in the delegation. In fact, it is at our and some others initiative that Abhinav Bindra was included by the Minister. Otherwise Secretary had no intention of taking any sportsperson like Abhinav," he claimed.
Deb, who is currently in Lausanne for the meeting, said he had not heard anything more absurd.