Praveen Bhargava, joint secretary of the Telangana State Tennis Association (TSTA), has taken exception to the executive committee’s recent decision of giving affiliation to seven new districts and fixing the date of TSTA elections on June 10.
He has moved the court, pointing to “suspicious” decisions taken in the meeting.
Terming it unconstitutional, Mr. Bhargava said, “I was present in the meeting where the decisions were taken, and strongly opposed the move. The incumbent secretary, Ashok Kumar, deemed it to have been passed by the majority with scant respect to the bye-laws.”
“The fact that the whole process was a farce was clearly evident as Mr. Ashok Kumar got enrolled as the president of the newly-formed Jagtial District Tennis Association. This shows that till now he was holding on to the post in TSTA from 2006-18 against rules as he was not an affiliated member of any district till then,” he added.
Mr. Bhargava said he has approached the court and the TSTA office-bearers have been asked to give an explanation. “Just to bail themselves out before that, the meeting was held to give an impression that everything was fair,” the joint secretary said, adding, “The other contentious decision at the meeting was to send the list of nominations to All India Tennis Association for approval which has never been done before. It seems suspicious.”
The matter is scheduled to come up for hearing on June 5, he said.
