“There is no problem to reform sports federations except the cricket board and football federation, as there are some international barriers.
National Sports Council (NSC) can dissolve or instruct any federations to organise elections or form an ad-hoc committee,” said SM Shah Habibur Rahman Hakim, one of the Directors of National Sports Council (NSC).
Habibur Rahman, while talking to the reporters at the NSC Bhavan on Sunday, said that after the formation of the interim government, the presidents and the general secretaries of most of the federations are unable to perform their duties due to the absence of almost all the high ups of the federations.
All the presidents and the general secretaries of almost all the federations were nominated by the ruling government, when most of them were Members of Parliament, ministers, state minsters and high officials or political persons.
Except the BCB and the BFF, the NSC asked other federations to provide the names of absentee officials (president and GS) to NSC, Habibur Rahman said.
Replying to a query, Habibur Rahman told the reporters that they were yet to receive any response from the federations.
After having the list of the absentee officials, NSC will decide whether there would be any ad-hoc Committee or election would be organised to run the activities of the federations.
Meanwhile, Ashiqur Rahman Miku, General Secretary of the Bangladesh Volleyball Federation (BVF), who was present at the NSC, said, “I have already gone to the federation.
We have the Asian Central Zone Volleyball competition scheduled for mid-September in Thailand. I talked to the president (Atiqul Islam, mayor of Dhaka North) recently, whether our team will go there or not. He told me, “we don’t know as yet where the players are, so, it would be better not to participate in this event’.
“I have informed the NSC about my discussion with the president. But right now I don't know where he (Atiqul) is and got his phone switched off.”
GS of Bangladesh Hockey Federation Mominul Haque, Secretary General of the Bangladesh Shooting Federation, President of the Chess Federation, former IGP Benazir Ahmed, President of the athletics federation Tofazzal Hossain Mia and its GS Abdur Raqib Montu (Who did not return home from Paris Olympic), MB Saif, general secretary of swimming federation, president and the and general secretary of the kabaddi federation former IGP Abdullah Al mamun and former DMP commissioner, Asaduzzaman Mian, general secretary of the boxing federation Mazharul Islam Tuhin, president of the basketball federation former MP Mustafa Jalal Mohiuddin, and the president of the carrom federation Junaid Ahmed Palak, all are
now absent.
