Veteran sports administrator Narinder Batra on Monday resigned as the President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and also gave up his membership of the International Olympic Committee. Batra ceased to be the President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) when the Delhi High Court on May 25 annulled the post of ‘life member’ in Hockey India, courtesy of which he contested the IOA elections and won back in 2017.
Originally published at Pen 18
In three separate letters, Batra officially tendered his resignation from the IOA, IOC and FIH respectively.
“For personal reasons, I submit my resignation as President of the FIH,” Batra wrote to the FIH Executive Board.
Batra’s IOC membership was tied to the post of IOA president, but his resignation from the FIH comes as a surprise as he said in May that he wanted to focus on his job at the world hockey body.
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