HI Executive Board meet: Infighting and Governing Council for HIL on agenda
The controversy-mired Hockey India has called an emergent Executive Board meeting on September 18 here to resolve the differences among its top officials and restructure the struggling Hockey India League to create an independent Governing Council.
HI President Dilip Tirkey and secretary Bhola Nath Singh have not been on the same page for a while following the controversy surrounding the change of Indian teams' jersey colour from blue to saffron before the recently-concluded FIH World Cup.
Tirkey said the jersey change was done without his knowledge and without the consent of the HI Executive Board.
Subsequently, he sent a show-cause notice to HI Director General, Cdr R K Srivastava and stripped him of all his powers with immediate effect, listing eight charges, with jersey change being the most prominent.
The turn of events has prompted secretary Bhola Nath Singh to call an emergent Executive Board Meeting.
The notice issued by Tirkey gave Srivastava four weeks' time to submit his
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