Pargat, KPS Gill nominees for HI polls

M.S. Unnikrishnan

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 23

Battle lines have been drawn for the Hockey India elections with HI acting president Vidya Stokes forwarding a list of 60 authorised representatives from 32 State units to Government observer for the election S.K.Mendiratta. Prominent names figuring in the list are Hockey Punjab secretary-general Pargat Singh, former Indian Hockey Federation president KPS Gill, representing Delhi, Hockey India treasurer Narinder Batra (Jammu and Kashmir), president Vidya Stokes and cricket official Anuraag Thakur (Himachal Pradesh), Rajeev Mehta of Uttarakand, who was in the affiliation committee and J.B.Roy of Bengal, who had raised a banner of revolt when Hockey India Ad Hoc Committee was formed, and the merger process was set in motion.

Each State unit has recommended a male and female representative while Karnataka was the only State which did not forward any names. Hockey Chandigarh’s representatives Chander Shekhar and Mrs K. Atma Ram have not been accepted by Hockey India as according to Stokes, “it has been observed that there has been mis-representation by Hockey Chandigarh”. She said the Chandigarh Olympic Association had sent a letter, saying that it had not recommended any unit from Chandigarh “concerning hockey for affiliation”. She has left it to the returning officer “to take a decision” on Chandigarh’s status.

Following are the final list of representatives of the various State units for the Hockey India elections after the expiry of the nomination date yesterday: Hockey Jammu and Kashmir: Narinder Batra and Mohinder Kaur; Hockey Bihar: Md. Mushtaque Ahmed and Meenakshi Singh; Hockey Haryana: M.L.Tayal and Subhita Dhaka; Maharashtra Hockey Association: Ikram E Khan and Leena Walia; Hockey Nagaland: K Viphrezo and Khruhituonuo; Hockey Tripura: Rupak Debroy and Mahua Kar; Hockey Uttar Pradesh: Andeshwar Pandey and Pushpa Srivastava; Hockey Assam: Himanta Biswa Sarma and Kalyani Deka; Hockey Orissa: Pratap Sathpathy and Sanjubala Mohanty; Hockey Andhra Pradesh: V Dinesh Reddy and Sangeetha Rani Gummi; Hockey Mizoram: H Khiangte and Zothankimi; Hockey Gujarat: I.D.Nanavati and Pravina R Shelar; Hockey Chattisgarh: Firoz Ansaari and Neeta Dumre; Hockey Manipur: Thoiba Singh and Nirmalata Devi; Hockey Jharkhand: T.P.Sinha and Savitri Purti; Goans Hockey: Rodento de Souza and Frell Furtado e Gracias; Hockey unit of Tamilnadu: N.R.Radhakrishnan and M Renukalakshmi; Hockey Rajasthan: Arun Saraswat and Shobha Singh; Hockey Punjab: Pargat Singh and Anupam Vashisht; Hockey Delhi: KPS Gill and Sudarshan Pathak; Hockey Arunachal: Gunjum Haider and Kohman Lungphi; Hockey Himachal: Anuraag Thakur and Vidya Stokes; Hockey Meghalaya: Raj Kakati and Sumita Singha; Hockey Andaman and Nicobar: V.A.Shiyad and Lally Joseph; Hockey Uttarkhand: Rajeev Mehta and Neeraj Singh; Bengal Hockey Association: J.B.Roy and Suravi Mitra; Hockey Puducherry: R Ejilane and Asha Gupta; Hockey Kerala: M.M.Abdul Rehman and Mariamma Koshi; SSCB: Capt. U.K.Thapa; RSPB: Rakesh Yadav; IUSBI: Gurdeep Singh; AISD: Dr Ramesh Nambiar.

HI election deferred

The Hockey India election scheduled for February 7 and which has already generated a lot of controversies was today deferred yet again because of a stay order from the Rajasthan High Court. The office bearers of Hockey India met today for an emergency meeting and decided to put off the election till a final decision is taken by the Rajasthan High Court. The election was to be held before February 28-March 13 Hockey World Cup. — PTI