BFF decides to postpone polls
The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has made a decision to postpone its April 20 elections for indefinite period in face of growing demand for deferment from the stakeholders.
The executive committee made the decision yesterday via an online view conducted among the 21 members. Every one of them opined towards postponement aside from Harun-Ur-Rashid, who did not respond to the e-mail sent to him by the BFF.
A statement from the BFF said, "Because of the World Health Organisation declaring the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic and the federal government of Bangladesh imposing a nationwide lockdown from March 26 to April 4 to curb the spread of coronavirus, almost any public gathering is banned nowadays."
"The executive committee of the BFF has made a decision to postpone the BFF Elective Congress 2020, previously scheduled to be held on April 20, unless the situation becomes normal. The same will be communicated to AFC and FIFA," thel statement further said.
BFF general secretary Abu Nayeem Shohag later informed that they might write to the FIFA and the AFC by tomorrow to get approval to postpone the elections and mandate to carry the polls sometime in normal situation. The tenure of the existing committee will expire on April 30.
Shohag also informed that the committee still wants to continue with the process of collecting names of councillors, extending the deadline for submission of names to April 7 from March 30.
