new delhi three wushu players from arunachal pradesh who were to take part in the world university games beginning on friday in chengdu were issued stapled visas by the chinese embassy here which led to the entire team being held back while the players from other sports left the countryeight wushu players and four team officials were to travel to china from the igi airport here in the wee hours of thursday 1am but all of them have now been told to stay put by the government three of the players nyeman wangsu onilu tega and mepung lamgu are from arunachal pradesha wushu association of india official said unlike other multisport events like the asian games or olympics the accreditation of the players and officials for the world university games is to be collected at the venue and they needed to apply for visasin the past also in case of events held under the aegis of the asian or world governing bodies of a particular sport china had issued stapled visas to players from arunachal pradeshdespite the world university games being such a big multisport event the participants will have to collect their accreditation at the host country venue only nobody gets the accreditation in india before departure the official told ptiso we need to apply for visas and the world university games organisers from china sent an invite which is to be used for visa applications all of the players and officials got the proper visas but the three players from arunachal pradesh got stapled visasthe association of indian universities aiu which is the governing body for university sports in the country had intimated the chinese embassy about the visa application the wushu players visited the visa application centre on july 17while all the other nine in the wushu contingent got their visas on july 20 the three players from arunachal were told on july 24 to reapply after that they got stapled visa on wednesdaythe entire wushu contingent is staying put here and waiting for instructions from the government regarding the next course of action it is very unfortunate the official addedwe are also hoping that the aiu officials who have left for china along with the contingent from other sports will do something and sort out the matter with the chinese organiserswushu competitions in the world university games will be held from july 29 to august 3past instances of chinese embassy issuing stapled visain the past also sportspersons from arunachal pradesh had to miss international events in china due to the stapled visa issuein 2011 an official of the indian weightlifting federation hailing from arunachal pradesh and a weightlifter from the same state were to travel to china to take part in a grand prix event in china but they missed out after they were issued stapled visathe same year five karate players from arunachal pradesh who were to travel to china for a championship met with the same fate as also two young archers