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Fed polls welcomed

'Make way for real organisers to be elected'

Sports Reporter
The decision to hold elections in the national sports federations have been welcomed by organisers but they urged the authorities to find out a way so that the dedicated organisers can come to office.
The executive committee of National Sports Council (NSC) discussed the elections issue in its meeting and it is expected that the much-awaited polls in different federations will take place early next year on completion of the NSC annual general meeting in December.
Bangladesh Athletics Federation president and former NSC secretary Ali Kabir emphasised the need of real organisers in the federations and urged State Minister for Youth and Sports Ahad Ali Sarker to find out a way to accommodate real organisers in the executive committees of different national federations as well as stop the vote-buying culture.
Of the 43 national federations and associations, 25 are currently being run by ad-hoc committees and three more are being operated by committees whose tenures have already expired.
Kabaddi, chess, tennis, badminton, handball, gymnasium, cycling, karate, judo, wres-
tling bodybuilding, carrom, judo, kho kho and rowing are the major federations which are being operated by ad-hoc committees for a couple of years now.
While federations and associations like squash, billiard, bridge, kite, golf, martial arts, rugby, fencing, baseball, soft-ball and kickboxing are also traditionally run by ad-hoc committees.
There have been no elections in the sports federations since the Awami League-led grand alliance came to power in December, 2008. And instead of holding elections, the government allegedly opted to appoint ad-hoc committees to run different bodies on expiry of the elected committees. But those committees, except for a few federations, could hardly keep the game on field round the year.
It has been learnt that the government initially planned to hold the elections of the district sports associations (DSAs) first to bring like-minded organisers in a bid to keep the pro-opposition organisers away and then hold the polls of the national federations and associations.
But NSC, the country's sports regulatory body, neither completed the DSA elections
nor held any polls in the national federations in three years which drew huge criticism in the sports arena.
The government could hold elections in only 21 out of a total of 71 district and divisional sports associations though presently 13 DSAs are being run by ad-hoc committees, but the pro-government organisers are now seemingly confident of winning the federation elections.
It was seen in the past that in the national federations polls, DSA councillors played 'nasty' roles that virtually kept genuine organisers out of the executive bodies.
"There is no alternative to democracy but NSC should find out a way to accommodate genuine organisers in the executive committee," badminton federation's acting general secretary Zahidul Islam Kochi said. "If NSC forces DSAs to follow its rules, then the real organisers will automatically be picked."