new delhi the archery association of indias aai elections which are to be held on saturday have become a major cause of worry for both the sports ministry and the indian olympic association ioawith the courtappointed administrator and returning officer sy qureshi refusing to budge from his stand both the ministry and the ioa fear that the controversial elections will cast a huge shadow on how sports in india is governed in the future they are worried about the farreaching consequences of the elections on the functioning of the national sports federations nsfs and the olympic movement in the countryon wednesday ioa president narinder batra launched a scathing attack on archery federations administrator qureshi the former chief election commissioner cec of india calling him a liar and a dishonest person qureshi is lying and misquoting the 2017 order of the supreme court which states that the administratormust hold elections as per the existing provisions of the sports code he is conducting elections as per the revised draft of the code which no one has seen as it is lying with the delhi high court in a sealed envelope batra told toiqureshi unfazed by the criticism informed that hell go ahead with the elections as scheduled his reaction came after both the ministry and the ioa refused to appoint observers to oversee the election process terming the whole exercise unconstitutionalthe aai was derecognised by the government in december 2012the issue here is that the provisions of the existing sports code of 2011 do not bar public servants read ministers mps mlas and serving bureaucrats from holding offices in the nsfs while restricting associate members and individual members from voting during the elections qureshi on the other hand has barred public servants from contesting elections and granted voting rights to associate members and to individual archers while making amendments to the archery constitution