new delhi jun 25 sports minister kiren rijiju tuesday made it clear that he will not tolerate mismanagement of national federations and will take action if the interests of athletes are affected some sports federations including archery association of india aai and gymnastics federation of india gfi have been experiencing factional feuds and rijiju said his prime concern is to protect the interests of these sports and the players govt cannot intervene or intrude in the running of federations but we will not be a mute spectator if a sport is destroyed by mismanagement in any federation rijiju said during an interaction it reflects upon us as a nation if there is a problem in a federation if they run into conflict with international federations then the government has to be consulted the two warring factions of aai recently elected two presidents forcing the world archery to delist the national federation as its member and warn it to either get its house in order by july 31 or face suspension what happened in archery there are certain directions given by the court and after that the two factions did something which is not proper but whatever it may be we will ask them to work in tandem with the court directive and the interest of the players should not suffer rijiju said the sports minister said he will soon resign from his position as president of arunachal archery association i am still archery association president of arunachal pradesh but now i will resign i will ask the state unit to conduct a meeting and start the process of electing a new president gymnastics does not have a governmentrecognised federation since 2012 there are two factions in gfi which has been derecognised by the ioa rijiju said i havent seen in detail the issues of gfi but the factional issue within the sports bodies needs to be addressed if a particular discipline is suffering because of problems in the federation then we will take corrective steps i dont want the gymnasts to suffer our sports secretary is already meeting with the federations one by one and i am planning to meet them soon we are going to work together we have to ensure the game does not suffer due to factions within sports bodies that is my primary concern talking about the increasing cases of doping in the country rijiju said clean sport is one of the main ethos of olympic charter i cant spell out what steps i will take but when i have a clear cut idea we will take necessary steps it is not only about policies it is a question of facilities and availability of experts and management we have to do some preparatory ground work before i speak up give me some time and we will come up with better policies and steps asked what are his expectations from indian athletes at the tokyo olympics rijiju said olympic medal is something we should not predict