The wrangling within the Indian Boxing Federation continued with the IBF stating that the world body AIBA had "categorically" instructed vice-president, Brig Muralidharan Raja, to stay away from calling any meeting on his own.
The development comes after Raja, a former secretary general of the federation, was served a showcause for calling a meeting of various state boxing units and associations.
Raja was quoted in the media as saying "state units have unanimously decided to meet on October 6 and the idea is to form an ad-hoc body which will take over the proceedings of the meeting".
The IBF then landed a counter-punch.
"...In fact even AIBA the world body for boxing has written to Brig Raja and categorically asked him to not to organise any such meeting. Furthermore they have mentioned, in their letter dated 25 Sep 2013, that the said meeting is not sanctioned by AIBA as well," the IBF said in a statement.
The IBF sought to inform about the stance taken by the Indian boxing body relating to Raja and said AIBA also agreed with them.
"First and foremost as per the IBF constitution, Brig Raja, as Vice President of the Indian Boxing Federation does not have the proper authority to call a General House meeting and to discuss the amendments of IBF Constitution, form an adhoc committee to finalise date of AGM and set a date for election of IBF office bearers (agenda as stipulated by him).
"The IBF Constitution does have the provision to convene a General House meeting on the request of any member or a collective few, if they follow proper procedure and approach the Federation first, which obviously was not done in this case," it added in the statement.
