NEW DELHI: The change in regime in the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), which is now headed by PT Usha with the country's football federation's chief Kalyan Chaubey as her deputy, has resulted in India's deputy chef-de-missions (CDMs) for the Asian Games in Hangzhou being dropped and replaced by officials of new dispensation's choice. Only wushu federation's head, Bhupendra Singh Bajwa, has been retained as the lead CDM.
In January last year, when IOA was run by veteran sports administrator Narinder Batra as its president with Rajeev Mehta as secretary general, the national Olympic committee had announced the names of Ajay Kumar Singhania (secretary general of the Badminton Association of India), Swapan Banerjee (president of the Bengal Olympic Association), Gurudatta Bhakta (secretary general of the Goa Olympic Association) and Hariom Kaushik (executive board member of the Netball Federation of India) as India's deputy CDMs for the Asian Games.
