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India to bring in new Olympic chiefs

BCCI president’s brother likely to take over as head of suspended body.

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Ramachandran was the lone candidate in the fray for the president’s post in the February 9 elections, according to the list of nominations mentioned on the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) website. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

NEW DELHI: India’s suspended Olympic body is set to elect world squash chief N Ramachandran as its president next month, paving the way for the country’s expected return to the Olympic fold.

Ramachandran was the lone candidate in the fray for the president’s post in the February 9 elections, according to the list of nominations mentioned on the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) website.

Also certain to be elected unopposed were Hockey India official Rajiv Mehta as secretary-general and the country’s tennis chief Anil Khanna as treasurer.

Ramachandran, whose elder brother N Srinivasan heads the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), served as the IOA treasurer from 2008 to 2012 and has been president of the World Squash Federation since 2008.

The International Olympic Committee froze India’s membership in December 2012 and suspended it from the Games movement after the IOA elected a number of tainted officials to key posts.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 27^th, 2014.

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