new delhi sports minister kiren rijiju on friday said the government was open to review the clause in the proposed national sports code which bars ministers mps and mlas to be part of sports administration and promised to form an expert panel to look into the contentious issuerijiju said the government and the ioa were not conflicted on the code issue after his firstever formal meeting with officials of national sports federations nsfs and the ioa but insisted it did not come up for discussion todaysports code is just a part of one thing which we consider as important but our main purpose is to promote sports with regard to sports code we have already taken a decision that this is a technical issue this is an issue related to policy so an expert committee will look into it at an appropriate time rijiju saidalong with the indian olympic association we will form an expert committee which will take a call but not now we didnt deliberate on the issue in todays meeting we deliberated on the promotions of sports and olympic preparation he said the ioa represents the interests of all sports federations when the ioa president said he is satisfied with todays meeting that means we are together there is nothing called conflict there is no conflict he addedthe minister earlier in the day a sports code which is acceptable to all will be put in place by the governmentwe cant single out any profession with regards to governance of the sport it would be wrong to say that businessmen cannot take part in sports federations or politicians and officers cannot take part then who will run sport asked rijijuit is not about the profession it is about how suitable one is to run the sports federation we cannot single out any person of any background what is in the best interest of sport will be put in the sports codethere was virtually no discussion on the sports code today i believe the sports minister knows that the ioa and nsfs are opposed to the draft sports code and proposed changes he straightaway said that a new committee will be formed to look into the sports code a top ioa official told ptiasked about the earlier sports code he said we can take good provisions from there and include it it will be for the good of indian sportsmajority of the nsfs are against the age cap 70 years and tenure clause in the 2017 draft sports code besides the clause which bars politicians and bureaucrats from holding office in ioa and nsfsasked if a middle path could be found between all stakeholders the minister said there is no middle path we are together i want a sports code which is universally acceptable which is suitable for sports and wont lead to any controversywhy courts are intervening in sporting matters if they are required to intervene it means there is a failure of sports mechanism there will be