The candidacy of the former Minister of Sports, Anurag Thakur, to challenge the presidential election of the Boxing Federation of India was brought back on the right track after the high court of the Himachal Pradesh aroused his disqualification of the electoral college and ordered the BFI to extend the date of appointments to allow his candidacy. Thakur, who is also a deputy for Lok Sabha from Hamirpur, was declared inadmissible after a prescription of March 7 by the president of BFI, Ajay Singh, who said that only elected members were qualified to be part of the electoral process.
Thakur sought to represent the Himachal Pradesh Boxing Association in the EC and was declared not to be an elected member.
However, judge Ajay Mohan Goel ruled on Thursday that the electoral college approved by the return officer RK Gauba on March 13, who left Thakur, “is primary, bad and unsustainable in law”. “In this context, the balance of convenience is also in favor of petitioners and so temporarily, as prayed by the petitioners is not granted, then an irreparable loss will be caused to them,” said the order.
“… As an ad-interamic measure, this Court arouses the functioning of the opinion, dated 07.03.2025, as well as the rejection of the appointment of one of the two designated members … namely Mr. Anurag Singh Thakur …” The head of the BFI declared that he would decide his next action course after having followed the order of 34 years.
“We are still studying the ordinance and on the basis of legal advice, we will call on the decision,” Singh told PTI.
The court ordered BFI to treat the names of Thakur and another HPBA official, Rajesh Bhandari, as a “valid appointment for the electoral college”. He said that the president of the BFI had made the order of March 7 “without any authority and without any power”.
The court order opened the way to Thakur to contest the polls scheduled for March 28, because it ordered the BFI to “extend the last date of appointment of appointment” to allow him to file his papers.
Thakur was also authorized to represent the Himachal Pradesh during the annual general meeting and to “participate fully”. HPBA argued that Thakur has been an elected member of the State Unit since 2008 and served “in various titles, including the President”.
The elections to the BFI have been considerably delayed and bogged down in endless controversy.
The organization was originally supposed to organize elections before February 2, but only made action after the IOA appointed an ad hoc committee. BFI challenged the move to the High Court of Delhi, which suspended the ad hoc panel.
The Himachal Pradesh ordinance of the High Court occurs a day after the High Court of Delhi also attracted the order of March 7, but allowed the electoral process to continue as planned with the final result depending on its decision on the plea filed by the Delhi Amateur Boxing Association.
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