B V P Rao elected archery association president

B V P Rao was Saturday elected president of the Archery Association of India in the controversial polls held here under a High Court-appointed administrator.

Rao, who represented Archery Association of Assam, beat Rupak Debroy of Tripura by 49 votes to 36 in the contest for the president's post at the elections held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here.

A retired IAS office of Assam cadre, Rao earlier served as vice president of the archery association of the northeastern state. He was also earlier associated with Sports Authority of India in various capacities. For the last four years, he served as an Advisor to Telengana government before resigning to contest for the AAI top job.

He had also fought elections unsuccessfully against Vijay Kumar Malhotra, who served as AAI President for 40 years from 1973 to 2012, when it was de-recognised by the government for not following the sports code.

Maha Singh was elected as secretary while D K Vidyarthi won the contest for treasurer. Sunil ...