Chauthala out, Jindal is HOA chief

In a game of one-upmanship, Haryana Olympic Association president and Indian National Lok Dal leader Abhey Singh Chauthala was ousted today and Congress MP from Kurukshetra Naveen Jindal was ’unanimously’ chosen as the new chief.

In a game of one-upmanship, Haryana Olympic Association (HOA) president and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Abhey Singh Chauthala was ousted today and Congress MP from Kurukshetra Naveen Jindal was ’unanimously’ chosen as the new chief.

Chauthala’s ouster could be interpreted as a move by the Haryana’s ruling Congress party to wrest control of HOA.

The decision to remove Abhey, who was the lifetime president of the association, from the post was taken during the general body meeting Saturday. Former Haryana DGP M.S. Malik also ceased to be the HOA secretary.

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Besides this, Congress MLA from Meham, Anand Singh Dangi, a known Chauthala baiter, was chosen as the vice-president while ADGP (CID) Paramveer Rathi was ’unanimously’ elected as the general secretary of HOA.

The HOA meeting was conducted amid tight police cover.Jindal later said all rules and procedures of the association’s constitution were followed during the elections. He claimed that representatives of 49 out of 68 affiliated units were present.

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