The players, Nyeman Wangsu, Onilu Tega and Mepung Lamgu, were booked to fly out as a component of a 11-part wushu contingent - seven male and four female competitors - on a Cathay Pacific flight Wednesday night from IGI air terminal in New Delhi. They were to partake in individual occasions of the hand to hand fighting game. The triplet are currently obliged at Sports Authority of India's JLN inn till the issue of their interest is settled.
Visa issue: Wushu players meet Rijiju
The wushu contests will run from September 24 to 28 at the Guali Social and Sports Center in Xiaoshan locale.
In July, a 12-part wushu group's outing to Chengdu for the World College Games was canceled after the Chinese consulate in Delhi gave 'stapled visas' to similar threesome of Arunachal competitors, provoking an irate response from India's outer issues service which named the move "unsatisfactory".
In the most recent episode, the three competitors, as per sources in the Wushu Relationship of India (WAI), were not being cleared to continue past Hong Kong to China after their license cards couldn't be downloaded for approval. They were set up for a Delhi-Hong Kong-Hangzhou course.
"Their clearances have not shown up to enter China. We, at the alliance, couldn't download their certification cards for the Games while the leftover individuals from the group could download theirs with next to no issues. The certification card goes about as your visa. Thus, we chose to leave without them, trusting they could join the group before the rivalries start," one of the sources said.
"Our gourmet expert de-mission, Bhupendra Singh Bajwa, has proactively taken up the matter with the Asian Games sorting out advisory group while the Indian government has likewise been notified about the matter. Bajwa has arrived at the Competitors' Town in Hangzhou and will talk about the matter with the coordinators — the Olympic Gathering of Asia (OCA). As a matter of fact, Bajwa and Indian Olympic Affiliation's joint secretary and acting President Kalyan Chaubey had met the Chinese minister in Delhi some time back to examine the trouble looked by certain competitors in getting license," the source added.
It's been discovered that the three players met previous association sports serve Kiren Rijiju on Thursday evening and mentioned his mediation to get their entry for investment at the Games. Rijiju is a three-time MP in Lok Sabha from Arunachal Pradesh and right now holds the arrangement of priest of studies of the planet. After the gathering, Rijiju had conversations with the senior positioning authorities in the govt of India and looked for early goal of the issue. As per sources, the games service later held a gathering at night and chose to strategically take up the matter.