Bhubaneswar 18-Jun-2010 194
Election of office-bearers of Football Association of Orissa (FAO), scheduled to be held on June 27, became redundant as all the candidates for the 15 posts were elected uncontested today. ``Out of a total of 25 candidates, 10 withdrew their papers, leaving the rest get elected unopposed,`` electoral officer Upendra Kumar Dash disclosed at Cuttack. He, whoever, made it clear that the results would be officially announced at the general body meeting on June 27.
Office-bearers (Elected uncontested):
President: Debashis Samantaray
Working president: Aswini Patnaik
Vice-presidents (8): Bijay Das, Bhakta Ballav Das, Ramesh Chandra Mallick, Dr Janardan Dash, Hemant Kumar Das, Prahallad Tripathy, Prabhat Aditya Mishra, Subrat Kumar Panda.
Secretary: Sanjay Kuamr Behera
Joint-secretaries (3): Rushinath Sahu, Abhijit Paul, Bikram Keshari Mohapatra
Treasurer: M A Alam
Council members (16): Ashok Kumar Parija, Sanatan Baral, Niranjan Lenka, Nirad Kumar Swain, Raghunath Sahu, Sarat Kumar Behera, Ganesh Prasad Bhagat, Martin Kujur, Ram Chandra Sasmal, S K Sinha, Biswajit Patnaik, Binsen Sahoo, Sansari Sahoo, Sk Salauddin, Saraswati Mohanty, K K Bal.
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PHOTO: File photos of Football Association of Orissa president Debashis Samantaray (Left) and secretary Sanjay Behera.