"Clean Sports India (CSI) strongly feels that the PMO has made a serious mistake in appointing Mr Vijay Kumar Malhotra as the Chairman of All India Sports Council. The government has been struggling to implement government guidelines imposing age restriction of 70 years on Sports Federations and IOA," CSI President Ashwini Nachappa said in a statement.
"It is Mr Malhotra who has been the prime violator of this guidelines and this reward and elevation to the Chairman's post is disappointing and objectionable," she added.