NEW DELHI: Digvijay Chautala has been elected as the president of Handball Association of India (HAI) and Jagan Mohan Rao its secretary general, the development ending a longstanding impasse over running of the sport following the Indian Olympic Association’s intervention.
The HAI thanked the IOA for its role in resolving the issue and requested for its affiliation from the Indian sports’ apex body.
Two bodies — one led by Rao and another under Chautala — have been claiming to be the legitimate national federation for handball in the last few years. Handball was dropped from the National Games in Gujarat last year due to the confusion as to which body would run the show.
