Published on 12:00 AM, March 28, 2020

BFF decides to postpone polls

The Bangladesh Football Federation started a programme yesterday to provide food to the less fortunate, especially those who have been struggling to earn a living due to the coronavirus pandemic. BFF officials handed out packets of food outside the BFF House in Motijheel and said that the programme would provide 300 people with food and would run until April 4. PHOTO: Firoz Ahmed
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The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has decided to postpone its April 20 elections for indefinite period in face of growing demand for deferment from the stakeholders.

The executive committee made the decision yesterday through an online opinion conducted among the 21 members. All of them opined in favour of postponement except for Harun-Ur-Rashid, who did not respond to the e-mail sent to him by the BFF.

A statement from the BFF said, "Due to the World Health Organisation declaring the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic and the government of Bangladesh imposing a nationwide lockdown from March 26 to April 4 to curb the spread of coronavirus, any kind of public gathering is banned nowadays."

"The executive committee of the BFF has decided to postpone the BFF Elective Congress 2020, previously scheduled to be held on April 20, unless the situation becomes normal. The same will be communicated to AFC and FIFA," thel statement further said.

BFF general secretary Abu Nayeem Shohag later informed that they would write to the FIFA and the AFC by tomorrow to seek approval to postpone the elections and mandate to hold the polls sometime in normal situation. The tenure of the current committee will expire on April 30.

Shohag also informed that the committee still wants to continue with the process of collecting names of councillors, extending the deadline for submission of names to April 7 from March 30. 

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