Politicians overshadow sports federations in India - NewsX

Another BCCI man has landed in a controversy. Jammu and Kashmir cricket association representative Aslam Goni's name has surfaced in a financial scam. He is not the first politician and not the last politician as part of a sports body to be involved in muck of this kind. Sports in India is in the stranglehold of the politician-bureaucrat nexus. No sports federation in India is free from the influence of the politician-bureaucrat combine as sports means power, pelf and free publicity. No wonder, more and more politicians and bureaucrats are clamouring to get into the area of sports administration.

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