Ajay Singh re-elected as Boxing Federation of India president

Kumar replaced Assam’s Hemanta Kalita who according to the Sports Code was ineligible to contest after serving two consecutive four-year terms as an office-bearer and will now head into the mandatory cooling-off period. The other contestant, Delhi’s Neeraj Jain, withdrew his nomination earlier in the day.

The treasurer’s post was a three-way fight which saw Tamil Nadu’s Pon Baskaran defeating Odisha’s Anil Kumar Bohidar and Pondicherry’s R Gopu. The elections had participation from 34 state units representing 66 votes.

The results remain subject to the final outcome of an ongoing case in the Delhi High Court, where several state units have challenged the constitutional amendments introduced by the interim committee that had been overseeing BFI’s daily affairs since April.