With four days to go for the crucial meeting between Indian officials and the International Olympic Committee, efforts to persuade acting IOA President VK Malhotra and IOC member in India Randhir Singh to reconsider their decision to pull out have not borne fruit with both insisting on staying away.
Malhotra and Randhir had decided to boycott the meeting came a day after the IOC agreed to include Hockey India General Secretary Narinder Batra and Jharkhand Olympic Association R K Anand in the IOA delegation for the meeting, in addition to the four-member list submitted earlier.
The meeting, which is expected to draw a roadmap for India's return to the Olympic fold, will also be attended by Sports Minister Jitendra Singh, Sports Secretary P K Deb, Beijing Olympics gold medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra and Olympian sailor Malav Shroff.
Randhir, who was expected to play a key role in the parleys pulled out expressing unhappiness over the composition of the delegation.
There were reports that he could still go to Lausanne and that his stand was a pressure tactic.
"There is no change in my stand, I am not going to Lausanne. I am not trying to use any pressure tactics," Randhir told PTI.
