New Delhi: Elections to the Wrestling Federation of India – a key promise made by the Union government to India’s top wrestlers – appear to face further delays.The federation has been embroiled in controversy since wrestlers began a protest at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, against the lack of police action on serious allegations of sexual harassment against its chief, the Bharatiya Janata Party MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.After an almost 40-day sit-in, the wrestlers were invited for talks with Union sports minister Anurag Thakur, who promised that the Delhi Police would file a charge sheet against Singh (which it did, on June 15) and that fresh elections will be held to select leadership for the federation.Originally scheduled for July 11, this election was initially stayed by the Gauhati high court after the Assam Wrestling Association (AWA) sought to be included in the electoral college as a state unit of the WFI. The high court, a day ago, said that the next hearing would be on July 28.However, now the Tripura state unit of the WFI – Wrestling Association of Tripura – has also petitioned the high court to be included in the electors’ list, Hindustan Times has reported.The news outlet has it that eight other state units, in addition to Tripura and Assam have written to the ad hoc panel over WFI ‘illegally disaffiliating’ state bodies. This disaffiliation process took place during MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s 12-year term as president of the body, the state bodies have alleged.Many state units alleged that Singh used his influence to place family members and his own people in state bodies, the report says.In an earlier letter to the ad hoc committee on May 5, the Tripura wrestling body president Rupak Deb Roy said Brij Bhushan had told him to “send his son’s name from Tripura for the 2015 WFI elections.”These elections are being conducted by an ad-hoc committee set up in the aftermath of the complaints against Brij Bhushan.The United World Wrestling (UWW), the international governing body for amateur wrestling, had earlier said that failure to uphold the deadline for election to the WFI “may lead UWW to suspend the federation, thereby forcing the athletes to compete under a neutral flag.”