Anurag Thakur faction gets boost as HP HC directs BFI to include name in polls

Interestingly, the Electoral College prepared by the president without the name of Thakur was accepted by RO RK Gauba. In the HP HC order, the single judge Ajay Mohan Goel also said that there is no rider mentioned in the rules and regulations of the BFI on who the state unit can nominate. The order notes that “one finds that the Electoral College is to inter alia consist of two voters who are to be nominated by each member association and the nomination or representation of each member association is to be by two member representatives authorised by the President or General Secretary/ Secretary of the association. There is no rider mentioned in the Rules and Regulations that only those persons can be nominated as members by a member association, who are duly elected members during the election AGM duly notified to BFI of the State Unites etc. The Deputy Solicitor General of India, Balram Sharma, representing Union of India said that after the term of the office bearers expired on February 2 the president has no authority to bring out such an order.