Sham gives clean chit to poll process
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Mumbai: Olympian Gurbux Singh on Wednesday made an appeal to the Mumbai Hockey Association president Mangha Singh Bakshi to ‘thoroughly inspect’ the procedure followed during the election that was held on June 29 at the MHA premises.
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Election officer SK Sham submitted his report to Bakshi and secretary Kehar Singh on Wednesday. In his five-page report, Sham has categorically rejected Gurbux Singh’s request for a re-poll for the post of secretary. “I have to say that this cannot be granted as I do not have any convincing reasons to do so on mere presumption of manipulation,” Sham said in his report. He also expressed his surprise over the allegations of rigging. “Except for a couple of excited persons, members of both the groups have given me excellent co-operation. I do not know how and why the canard of rigging is being raised,” he stated.
Gurbux has already lodged a police complaint against the procedure at the Marine Lines police station on Tuesday. An aggrieved Gurbux said: “Let’s hope the president will make sense of things. This will not be the end of it. We have already filed a police complaint and many things will follow, we cannot even rule out the court case.”