AFI President, Secy set to be elected unopposed in AGM

The Athletics Federation of India is all set to elect its president, secretary and treasurer unopposed at its AGM on April 13 and 14 as only one candidate each was left in the fray for the top three posts after the end of deadline for withdrawal of nominations.
The post of senior vice-president will also be elected unopposed at the two-day Annual General Body Meeting to be held at a hotel in Rajokri here.
The elections to the posts of president, secretary and treasurer of the AFI are being held after the Sports Ministry refused to recognise the incumbents chosen in the polls in March last year.

Early this year, following the Ministry's threat to derecognise it, the AFI amended a clause in its constitution which required that a person must be an existing member of the Executive Committee for seeking election to the post of President/Secretary.
The Sports Ministry had asked the AFI to re-elect the president, secretary and treasurer before the end of February but it later accepted the federation's request to hold the polls during the AGM.
Adille Sumariwala and C K Valson, who were respectively elected as president and secretary in the AGM in March last year only to be refused recognition by the Sports Ministry, are set to be re-elected as they were the only candidates left in the fray for those posts.

Uttar Pradesh Athletics Association Secretary P K Srivastava is set to become the treasurer while Tamil Nadu unit chief W I Dawaram, who is also currently one of the vice-presidents, would be the senior vice-president.
In the AGM last year, Karnataka unit secretary Satyanarayana was elected as the treasurer but the Sports Ministry refused to recognise on the ground that he had not taken permission from his public sector employers Indian Railways before filing his nominations.