Bari back to BHF

Ex-general secretary Shamsul Bari drew the highest votes in yesterday's Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) election, which lost all interest after all the office bearers had been elected unopposed.
Votes were taken only for 19 member posts with 23 contesting.
Out of 73 councillors, 53 cast their vote with Shahriar Alam-Sajed Adel panel -- which withdrew their candidature after a failed negotiation with Jamil Uddin-Rashid Shikder panel -- boycotting the whole procedures.
It would be the first time an executive committee of the BHF would be without any representative from Abahani, a popular and one of the two most successful clubs in history of domestic hockey.
The veteran Bari, who has been suffering from different diseases and needs support to even walk, got 49 votes. He was not included in the ad-hoc committee.
The other elected members are Mohammed Yusuf, Nazirul Islam, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Mosaddek Hossain, Shafiqul Islam, Abdullah Piru, Subhash Chandra, Imranul Islam, Yusuf Ali, Tofazzal Hossain, Mamunur Rashid, Jafrul Ahsan, Hasanuddin Shimul, Anwar Hossain Khan, Jamil Abdul Naser, Anvir Adel, Abdur Razzak and Meer Monwar Ali.
The office bearers elected unopposed: Pratap Shankar Hazra, MA Gafur, Azizur Rahman Raju, KMR Manzoor, Shahjahan Sarker (vice-presidents); Khondokar Jamil Uddin (general secretary); Abdur Rashid Shikder, Masirul Kabir (joint secretaries); Kazi Moinuzzaman (treasurer).