Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: November 26, 2023, 11:50 IST
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Hockey India below Bhola Nath Singh’s management, had fashioned an ad-hoc committee to run the day-to-day affairs of Telangana hockey.
Hockey India was left-red-faced on Saturday after its omnipotent secretary basic Bhola Nath Singh was accused of attempting to “extort” Rs 25 lakh from Telangana Hockey unit president Saral Talwar, an allegation which the senior administrator termed “baseless”.
The allegations by Talwar is predicated on Bhola Nath apparently demanding big sum of cash lieu of permitting the state hockey unit to conduct elections.
Telangana Hockey’s elections have been due since April this yr however in keeping with Talwar, HI secretary basic has been creating a number of pointless hurdles, citing completely different causes at completely different junctures.
“The elections have been due in April and we have been on line to conduct it however an HI official was sabotaging that. HI stated there have been complaints and we gave a solution to the committee and at last I met him (Bhola Nath) and he stated that ‘if you want to get out of it, you have to pay Rs 25 (lakh). It was just me and him in the room,” Talwar told PTI.
“And then he said, he will give 7 days time to think about it. I met him on November 3,” Talwar said.
Bhola Nath, on his part, rejeceted all the allegations and said he has always worked for the betterment of the sport.
“These allegations are completely baseless. I have never taken even 25 paisa from anyone, leave aside Rs 25 lakh,” he told PTI.
“I have always worked for the betterment of the sport and for the welfare and growth of Indian hockey and Indian players.”
The problem started when HI under Bhola Nath’s management, fashioned an ad-hoc committee to run the day-to-day affairs of Telangana hockey.
The three-member ad-hoc committee was headed by Chhatisgarh Hockey secretary basic Firoz Ansari and it compelled Talwar to lodge the grievance.
Talwar stated that they’ve been attempting to conduct the elections from the onset however HI was deferring it citing one or the opposite causes, together with, non-compliance with its Constitution.
“HI formed the ad-hoc committee was formed almost 3 months back and for the last 3 months it didn’t meet once. They kept on giving some excuses on the other, like our Constitution was not correct, they want to change our Constitution, they they said they want more permanent members.”
Talwar stated he tried to achieve out to HI president Dilip Tirkey, who promised to look into the matter.
“I have written to him (Tirkey) twice before and then again I wrote the last letter to him. I spoke to him also in detail and he said he will look into it but than nothing happened,” he claimed.
“Now I am hoping that a person like Dilip should take action. If not I will see what is the next available action I have.”
Bhola Nath admitted that that they had fashioned an ad-hoc committee to run the affairs of Telegana Hockey as its elections have been due since April.
“Yes, we had formed an ad-hoc committee to run Telangana Hockey since they were not being able to conduct their elections since April-May,” he stated in his defence.
“When time comes, I will disclose everything. I know who is after all these dirty things.”
Meanwhile, there have been additionally rumours that HI’s long-standing CEO Elena Norman of Australia is about to resign within the wake of this growth.
But repeated calls to her and HI president Dilip Tirkey remained unanswered.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is revealed from a syndicated news company feed – PTI)
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