Chhattisgarh Olympic Association (COA) will hold its special general body meeting on November 6 at 11.00 AM at Hotel Vennington Court, Jail Road, Raipur as the existing body has surpassed its tenure.
The election was due in October 2019.
According to Bashir Khan, vice president, COA, agenda of the meeting will be moving no confidence motion against outlived (existing) executive committee of COA in view of completion of its tenure on October 25, 2109. The second agenda will be confirmation of members of State Sports Association(s)/Games and District Olympic Association of COA. The third agenda is elections/nominations and confirmation of new executive committee for 2019-23.
Meanwhile, in a letter to COA, IOA secretary general Rajeev Mehta on holding the election has clarified as per the IOA constitution clause 28, State Olympic Association 28.1 “The State Olympic Association should formulate their constitution in consonance with the IOA constitution. No provision of constitution of State Olympic Association should be in contradiction to the constitution of the IOA.”
Further, the letter stated that tenure of election in IOA is four years and only affiliated member units and the IOC members are permitted to vote in the elections and there is no voting right for life members.
A sports delegation already called on Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel to head the COA and some of association members are likely to back this move as earlier the then CM Raman Singh was made the COA president.