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The All India Football Federation (AIFF) Executive Committee meet at a hotel in New Delhi on Tuesday, January 30.
The key reason of the ExCo meeting was to confirm the removal of Dr. Shaji Prabhakaran from the post of Secretary general, more than two months after the AIFF emergency committee did the same on November 7 for ‘breach of trust’.
But a single bench of the Delhi High Court had on December 8 ordered an interim stay on the sacking.
In its latest order of January 19, the High Court pointed out that Prabhakaran was dismissed by the emergency committee of the AIFF whereas the federation’s constitution provides that only the executive committee has the power to do that.
The High Court, however, had said that the stay order of December 8 “does not act as a bar on the AIFF to hold the meetings of the executive committee for the purpose of terminating the tenure of the petitioner (Prabhakaran)”.
This was done today by the AIFF ExCo.
Meanwhile former India captain and ExCo member Bhaichung Bhutia told PTI afterwards, “I told the executive committee members that Kalyan Chaubey and treasurer Kipa Ajay should also resign. Shaji Prabhakaran should not be made the only scapegoat. All three of them are equally responsible for taking decisions without the approval of executive committee.”
“All three of them were taking the decisions and if Shaji has to be removed, the president and treasurer should also be removed.”
“Indian football is in a mess, there is politics in the sport, cutting out each other after little over one year of taking charge, it is not good. The national team has been left in the lurch during the Hangzhou Asian Games as well as in the Asian Cup where there was inadequate training time for the team.”
#AIFF ExCo meeting held in #NewDelhi today!
– Shaji Prabhakaran was remove as Secretary General of the federation.
– Bhaichung Bhutia raised corruption allegations against the president & treasurer
-Bhaichung also came to verbal altercations with NA Harris#IndianFootball
— Arunava Chaudhuri | arunfoot (@Arunfoot) January 30, 2024
#IndianFootball latest – What really happened at the #AIFF ExCo meeting today? @Sports_Khabri @shukla_akshata @RahulNaresh4 @curiousharry19 https://t.co/mWRaKNVkuk
— Arunava Chaudhuri | arunfoot (@Arunfoot) January 30, 2024
