At a press conference organized on Thursday, NOC said that it took the decision without informing National Sports Council (NSC) and Nepal Taekwondo Association (NTA). [break]
Bista, who holds the record of securing four consecutive gold medals in the South Asian Games, came under criticism after he attended the Games meeting in Singapore recently. NTA had suspended Bista from the central membership and NSC had slapped a one-year ban following Bista´s appointment.
NOC President Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan said, “We took the decision secretly, otherwise it would have been like a challenge to NSC and NTA at a time when the latter had formed a struggle committee against us. We had decided to appoint Bista as the chef-de-mission while we were in Bangladesh.”
Pradhan also said that NSC does not have the authority to ban players from playing.
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