All . with less than a week to go for India The nominations of two presidential candidates Manvendra Singh and Valanka Natasha Alemao in the elections to the Football Federation of India (AIFF) have been rejected following complaints of manipulation in support of names.
The AIFF elections will be held on August 28.
Ahead of the scrutiny of nominations on Sunday, a complaint was received from Jonathan De Sousa, a member of the Goa Football Association, stating that he had received information that Amit Khemani, President, Daman and Diu Football Association and Electoral Member College on 16 August He was out of the country but had supported Valanka’s candidature.
Based on the complaint, the returning officer asked Khemani to confirm whether he had supported Valanka’s nomination. Khemani, in his email the same day, said that his name was used by Valanka without his knowledge and that he had not signed the nomination papers of any of the candidates, indicating that the signatures were obtained fraudulently.
Chandigarh Football Association’s authorized representative Harjinder Singh also informed the Returning Officer that he has not proposed or supported the name of Manvendra Singh for the post of President.
In a notification, Returning Officer Umesh Sinha said, “Keeping in view the fact that the aforesaid supporters for the said nomination are not legally valid, the nominations of Manvendra Singh and Valanka Natasha Alemao are not acceptable and accordingly their candidature for the post of President is not acceptable.” The nomination is rejected.” on Sunday.
When contacted Manvendra Singh said, his candidature was initially supported by Kosaraju, but then “it was found that he had already signed someone else’s form and he (Kosaraju) could not sign my form.” “. And since there was a huge crowd, which Manvendra “did not recognize”, he took the form and submitted it after signing it. “I don’t know how Harjinder’s signature got there,” Manvendra said.
The Returning Officer stated that there were no other discrepancies in the nomination for the post of Speaker as “the proposers and supporters have confirmed their proposals through mobile messages/emails and a final list of valid nominees has been prepared”.
Eugenesson Lyngdoh’s nomination for the post of Executive Committee member has also been rejected as one Arif Ali supported the names of two candidates Lyngdoh and Menla Athenpa.
The Returning Officer in his notification on Sunday said that, as per the draft constitution of the AIFF, “no person shall be eligible to nominate more than one candidate as proposer or seconder for the same post and if he so his signature on the nomination papers given to the Returning Officer at the second place in time shall be deemed to be inoperative.
Since Lyngdoh’s nomination was received after Athenpa had already filed his nomination papers, Lyngdoh’s nomination was accepted and Lyngdoh’s second nomination was rejected.
In a similar case, a Mohan Lal had proposed the names of Lalnginglowa Hamar and Deepak Sharma for the post of executive committee members. But since Sharma’s nomination was received after Hamar filed his nomination papers, the earlier candidature was rejected.
Five candidates – charismatic footballers Bhaichung Bhutia, Shaji Prabhakaran, Kalyan Choubey, NA Haris and Ajit Banerjee – have thrown their hats on for the President’s post, while six nominations have been received for the Treasurer’s post. A total of 11 candidates are in the fray for the posts of Executive Committee members.
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