BFI elections to be held on August 21

BFI’s Annual Normal Assembly (AGM) will likely be held that day at a venue in Delhi-NCR, a round addressed to all BFI member items on Friday and signed by the interim committee head Ajay Singh mentioned.

“The member state/UT associations are requested to ship names of their two representatives as per the provisions of BFI’s structure as authorised by World Boxing to BFI’s workplace e mail earlier than 5pm on 4.8.2025,” the round added.

“The timelines for every little thing else, similar to date of withdrawals, electoral rolls, and many others., will likely be issued quickly,” a member of the interim panel knowledgeable.

The agenda for the AGM contains “affirmation of minutes of the earlier assembly, election of varied posts for the time period 2025-2029, and some other merchandise with the permission of the chair.”

The tenure of the earlier set of BFI office-bearers ended on February 2. Elections have been initially scheduled for March 28 however have been delayed resulting from a number of litigations. The Returning Officer, Justice (retd) RK Gauba, additionally resigned throughout the course of.

World Boxing, the worldwide governing physique of the game, had urged the interim committee to carry elections by August 31. In a current media interplay, Singh had reiterated his dedication to the deadline.

“With a view to making sure long-term institutional stability, World Boxing urges the interim committee to provoke and full the electoral course of for the BFI by thirty first August 2025. This may allow a clean transition to a democratically elected govt physique,” the letter from WB dated July 7 mentioned.

Every week later, the Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) fashioned a three-member committee to look at the delay in BFI elections. The committee was imagined to submit its findings in per week however its tenure was prolonged by per week. The three-member committee was headed by IOA treasurer Sahdev Yadav, with govt committee member Bhupinder Singh Bajwa and lawyer Payal Kakra being the opposite members.

The committee submitted its report back to IOA final week. “We spoke to all key members of BFI, together with the erstwhile president (Ajay Singh) and treasurer and urged the necessity to conduct elections as quickly as attainable,” a member of the panel mentioned.