MSAD sit-in-protest against action of Sports Authorities
- 12 August 2008 at ITO, Junction, New Delhi -
- PR from MSAD -

New Delhi / August 11, 2008

Manipur Students' Association, Delhi
12th August 2008, Parliament Street Police Station, Delhi

MSAD na ITO da amadi Ministry of Sport ta thomjinduna Monikagi doping test controversy ga mari leinana Manipur gi playersing namthaba yaroi haina khongjang changsinkhre. ITO junction da activist 200 romna nungthil pung 3 dagi 5 faoba demonstration touraba matungda Ministry of Sports ta thomjinduna entry pointsing thingkhi.

MSAD gi delegatesinga Muinistry of Sports ki representatives singga wari sannabada matik chaba solution ama purakpa ngamkhidre. Maheiroisingna makha tana gate thingduna meeyamgi oiba meefam famduna leibadagi Delhi Police action touduna Parliament Street Police station da activist 74 fajinduna thamkhre.

The protest at ITO Junction, New Delhi

Ngasigi protest asida laokhiba slogan singdi: We want justice, Sports Authority of India down down, Indian Olympic Association down down, Long Live Manipur, Imaleibakna Yaifare, Monika ko Justice do, Manipurna Olympicta maromdom mahut sinna yaogadabani, manipur players long live, we want freedom, etc.

Ministry of Sports ki gate mamangda famkhiba meefam aduda loukhiba warepsing makhada thamjari.

1. Indiagi sports official singna manipur gi sannaroisingbu oosit thouoidaba asi amuk hanna thoktanaba International touranament singda manipur na manipur gi oina mahut sinduna saruk yagadabani.
2. Manipur gi sannaroisinggidamaktadi meeyamna sel khaigatnaduna yokkhatkadabani.
3. 2010 gi Common wealth gamesta Manipur na manipur oina mahut sinduna yaonanaba manipur meeyamna hotnagadabani.
4. Monika amasung Manipur sannaroisinggidamakta MSADna angamba pambom tinggani.
5. Warep asibu manipur meeyamda khanghanba.

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N. Manishwar,
General Secretary,
Manipur Students' Association, Delhi
Dated/ Delhi: 11th August 2008

For further information please contact: 9891270695 / 9990970658

Apunbana Yaipharae
(Unity is Victory)
Manipur Students' Association Delhi
(Estd. 1971)

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Doping conspiracy is an insult . . .

The recent controversy on Monika who was being framed as positive in a dope test conducted on June 6 under the Sports Authority of India is a conspiracy that was cooked up to humiliate the sporting spirit of shining sportspersons of Manipur.

The conspiracy clearly shows the deep rooted corruption in Indian sports. Despite being an exhibition of the Sports Authority of India's (SAI) sinister design to publicly insult the concern and sentiments of the people of Manipur by framing Monika on false ground of doping result, the drama of doping test has also produced a new terrain of racial discrimination in Indian sport. The fraud is now witness to a blunder of losing India's lone weightlifter to compete in the Beijing Olympic.

People in Manipur work so hard to support all the sportspersons in their formative phases and this toiling should never get cheated like the way it is being done to Monika by refusing her to go to Beijing for the games on the false charges of using banned drugs.

The doping conspiracy has displayed sports officials' callousness to how big a sporting event the Olympic is to a sportsperson like Monika and her supporters and how sharp they will be hurt if they are falsely implicated. One can easily see the development of the drama of fraud in Monika's case.

As per the general norm for dope testing for international players, the dope test report should be made available 48-72 hours prior to her departure. Contrary to the norm, Sports Authority of India sent the dope test report to Indian Weightlifting Federation on August 6, the same day Monika had to leave for Beijing.

Surprisingly, even before the arrival of the test report to IWF, SAI had already made the media alert about the result which is only an act of a well prepared leakage of information. She was subsequently subjected to fresh dope test on August 8 at the instruction of IWF only to reveal all negative.

IWF urged Indian Olympic Association to allow Monika for the Beijing Olympic immediately. Another review panel recommended her for the Olympic by considering three latest negative reports after the test of June 6. She was given a clearance of the charges of positive.

She was given a hope that she now could go to Beijing which was later rejected by the Indian Olympic Association on the ground that the entry to Beijing Olympic had already been closed.

The dramatic developments from being tested 'positive' to being reincarnated 'negative', and finally directing to 'fly' to Beijing and later being rejected to the 'entry' is all that happened to an international weightlifter from Manipur.

Such a gross crime to Monika with all such vulgar intentions that is committed by the Sports Authority of India is what the Indian Army did to Manorama in 2004.

We stand for the Manipuri sportspersons.
We demand immediate suspension of R.K Naidu, Director SAI.
We demand CBI investigation of the doping conspiracy.

Distributed by Manipur Students' Association Delhi (MSAD)
12 August 2008

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