guwahati the wrestling federation of india wfi elections delayed several times were stalled yet again with the gauhati high court on sunday staying the july 11 polls on a petition filed by the assam wrestling associationthe assam wrestling association in its petition filed against the wfi ioa adhoc panel and the sports ministry said though it was entitled to be an affiliated member of the wfi it was not granted recognitionsenior advocate devajit saikia who appeared for the awa before the court of justice nani tagia said assam has been knocking on the doors of the wfi seeking its affiliation for the last nine to 10 years so that it can take part in the elections as well as in the sports events as an affiliated team the wfi executive committee had made a recommendation for the affiliation of the assam unit at the federations general council in gonda in november 2014 but it was denied recognition the governing council in 2019 said it would take up the matter in the meeting to be held later that year however the matter was not taken up saikia saidsaikia who was assisted by advocate buddhadeep gogoi stated that the recently formed new committee of the awa also requested the wfi for the affiliation but no step was taken awa had no option but to move the high court seeking affiliation from the wfi it prayed for staying the elections till the affiliation is granted the awa cannot participate in the elections or nominate representatives to the electoral college of wfi until it is affiliated he addedhe said as per the wfi election notification published on june 13 all affiliated units had to nominate two representatives to the electoral college by 5pm on sundaysaikia said the court of justice nani tagia admitted the petition of awa and stayed the elections and issued notices to the ministry of youth affairs and sports and wfi to respond to the petition on july 17saikia said awa formed in 1989 and affiliated to the assam olympics association has been taking part in the national wrestling events as a guest team since it is not an affiliated member