There will be elections for the positions of one president, one vice president, one treasurer, and 14 members of the executive committee in AIFF Election.
All 20 of the nomination papers for the All India Football Federation AIFF elections, which were to be held on September 2, were examined and found to be in order on August 28 by the returning officer.
The 20 nomination papers concern 14 candidates for the executive committee members, two candidates for each of the positions of president, vice president, and treasurer.
“After conducting scrutiny of nomination forms for the posts of president, vice president, treasurer and executive committee members, all 20 nomination forms have been found correct,” RO Umesh Sinha said.
Elections will be held to fill the positions of president, vice president, treasurer, and 14 members of the executive committee. Four men and two women who were former players would eventually be co-opted as voting members of the executive committee.
Before Tuesday at 1:00 p.m, Candidates can withdraw their nomination papers.
With the famous Bhaichung Bhutia facing off against former goalkeeper and front-runner Kalyan Chaubey as the presidential candidates, the top three positions of president, vice president, and treasurer might witness head-to-head contests between two candidates.
The returning officer has already released the electoral college, which consists of 34 representatives from the State associations.
Manvendra Singh, the president of the Rajasthan association and a congress politician, entered the race on Saturday to take on N.A. Haris for the position of lone vice-president. Mr. Haris is the current Congress Member of the State and the president of the Karnataka FA.
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The State association of Mr. Singh had backed Mr. Bhutia’s candidacy.
Gopalakrishna Kosaraju, the president of the Andhra Pradesh State Association, had submitted a letter on Friday withdrawing his candidacy for the position of treasurer against Kipa Ajay of Arunachal Pradesh. He had suggested Mr. Bhutia as the presidential candidate.
However, according to sources, he did not submit a withdrawal form, thus his candidacy is still active. It is unknown if he would withdraw or not before the deadline on Tuesday.
It is anticipated that all 14 candidates who submitted nomination papers for the same number of executive committee members will be chosen without opposition. They are G.P. Palguna, Avijit Paul, P. Anilkumar, Valanka Natasha Alemao, Menla Ethenpa, Mohan Lal, Arif Ali, K. Neibou Sekhose, Lalnghinglova Hmar, Deepak Sharma, Vijay Bali, and Syed Imtiaz Husain.
According to reports, If the Chaubey-led group wins the elections, Mr. Prabhakaran might take over as general secretary of the AIFF.
In order to save the Women’s U-17 World Cup, whose hosting was in danger when FIFA suspended the AIFF elections, the SC rendered a decision on August 22 that terminated the CoA’s term, banned the inclusion of 36 former players in the electoral college, and postponed the elections by a week.
But on Friday, FIFA withdrew the ban, making way for India to host the Women’s U-17 World Cup.
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