Once again Hockey India election is postponed.
We in India are not surprised at that.
If Indian hockey administration in limbo, and the FIH’s brain child Hockey India is attempting to hold election as many times as Argentina scores against Dominican Republic, this is only a mess created by the FIH, which it seemingly does not know how to untangle.
How can an election take place where the candidates pick voters? This daylight robbery being attempted by Hockey India cannot sell in India.
I don’t know why the FIH is closing its eyes, and is giving all the support to a organization that was secretly and fradulently formed, and without mandate?
In India, only two State Hockey Organizations own synthetic turf, one is Karnataka SHA and the other is Bombay SHA.
Both don’t have vote.
What is this nonsense?
The only other SHA that have a ground of its own, though only grass, is Vidarbha SHA, and this also doesn’t have a vote.
Then who has the vote?
One personal staff of IOA President Suresh Kalmadi has a vote; and it is clear this gentleman treats sports organizations as his personal properties.
It cannot go all the time
He might have done it with so many other sports with so many other times, but hockey is different where people are watchful.
Madras Hockey Association and Bombay Hockey Association, the two entities formed two decades before the FIH or the IHF was formed were left out of electoral college.
Hockey India is a fraud on Indian democratic traditions, which unfortunately has the tacit support of FIH.
Am really surprised at the total surrender of FIH superman Ondorza to Hockey India, all the more painful to know he went against the retired judge acting as Returning Officer instead giving certificate of character to one Mandher, who was appointed RO by the Hockey India coterie. Thankfully, the ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports blew this blatant bluff.
The issue at hand was simple. It was found wisdom to remove Gill and Party from the IHF in 2008 in the post Chile disaster scene. Once they have been removed, the IHF should have gone for election. Whoever wins, even it that meant the same set up — it was not possible that time as the national mood was against KPS Gill — they will only have the right to control hockey.
This routine thing was not allowed to happen by the vested interests, and they got willing FIH to play ball with them.
All noble principles (like one state one unit, merger of men and women SHAs) were brought into bear, with all bad intentions.
It appeared the key of the house was given to thief giving a mandate to keep the house safe!!
A global body need not have given affiliation to a body that was formed across the table, secretly and with fraud motives, ignoring the voters who were clearly constitutional bodies, clearly older than the IHF and the FIH themselves.
It is obvious every aggrieved body will go to court and stay your election.
No one has divine right to say somebody else is not existing. How can Hockey India says KSHA or BHA does not exist?