Former India player Ashish Ballal alleged that the Hockey Karnataka electoral college for the upcoming Executive Committee elections scheduled on September 8 – ahead of the Hockey India elections in October – has been tampered with.
Ballal’s nomination as a representative of Hockey Udupi – along with P. Anusuya Bai – was sent on Sunday by the district association president Niranjan Chiplunkar and secretary Ravindra Kumar. But Ballal’s and Anusuya Bai’s names don’t figure in the electoral college published on Wednesday and instead has the names of S. Kanchan Prasad and Prabhavathi Shetty.
“We don’t even know who they are,” claimed Ballal, on Thursday. “There are multiple district associations whose representatives are unknown and nobody knows who recommended them. There are some units which are not even registered bodies.
