The National Para Athletics Championship slipped into fresh crisis on Wednesday after a few events at night were conducted with just mobile phone torch lights.
Officials were seen measuring shot put marks at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium with tiny flash bulbs for an event that is a qualification competition for Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.
An athlete, who wished to remain anonymous, said massive delays during the day had resulted in events slipping beyond sunset and the organisers did not use the available flood lights.
There were also allegations from athletes that international Paralympic norms were flouted in deciding the weights for events like shot put.
Neither Satyanarayana, the Bengaluru-based chairman of the Technical Committee of Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) nor Gursharan Singh, Secretary General of PCI, were available for comment.
Earlier in the day, the organisers were at the receiving end of the Sports Authority of India’s ire. SAI, in a press statement, had expressed…