By Paritosh Pramanik
Nagpur, July 1
THERE seems to be a big trouble building up for The Nagpur District Unified Hockey Association after it conducted its elections against the ruling of Hockey Maharashtra.
Hockey Maharashtra, which controls hockey in the State, is planning to take legal course against TNDUHA for not following its directives.
The controversial elections took place on June 28 Khatijabai Technical Institute, Sadar, where MLC Sandip Joshi was elected as President and Parvez Qureshi was retained as Secretary. The entire 15-member body was elected unopposed. As reported by ‘The Hitavada’ in its June 29 ‘CityLine’ edition, the elections were held without any observer from Hockey Maharashtra, which is mandatory, for any district conducting the polls.
Hockey Maharashtra had asked TNDUHA Secretary Parvez Qureshi to put the elections on hold as “there were many complications” but he overruled the directions and went ahead with the elections.
Talking with ‘The Hitavada’ Hockey Maharashtra Secretary Manish Anand said that the association will be taking legal action against TNDUHA.
Though he did not say that the elections were illegal, the State hockey Secretary added that “despite not sending an observer, TNDUHA went ahead with the polls.”
The Secretary said, “There were many complications in the election process and we had mailed a letter to TNDUHA to put the elections on hold well in advance. But they went ahead. Now, whatever legal procedure will be there, it will be followed,” Anand declared.
“The procedure was not followed. They will now have to face the legal process,” Anand repeated.
The elections of TNDUHA was opposed by many of its own members including President Pramod Thakre, Joint Secretary Pramod Jain and life member (of Nagpur District Unified Hockey Association, (NDUHA) Sunil Madne.
While Jain called the elections as ‘fraud’, President Thakre called it illegal stating that the entire election process was conducted without his knowledge.
Jain had claimed that Qureshi got the affiliation from Hockey Maharashtra by fraudulent means and that the body is not registered with the Charity Commissioner, Nagpur.
He had alleged that Qureshi was deceiving both Hockey Maharashtra and Charity Commissioner, Nagpur.
Life member Madne stated that TNDUHA is using the registration number of NDUHA (BPT No 1676-12N). “Please note that there is no association registered with the name ‘THE’ Nagpur District Unified Hockey Association with the Charity Commissioner,” Madne had said in a legal notice to the Returning Officer of TNDUHA.
The controversy did not end there. The Returning Officer was replaced at the 11th hour without any knowledge of the members.
Earlier, Adv Bhushan Mohata was the Returning Officer but according to Qureshi, he resigned for “personal reasons” and was replaced by Adv Nitin Deshmukh who declared the election results on June 28.
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