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Pargat Singh files nomination for Hockey India president's post | Former Indian hockey captain Pargat Singh on Saturday filed his nomination for the post of Hockey India (HI) President in the national capital. Pargat will contest against HI Interim President Vidya
Stokes. He said that he was confident of winning the elections, and claimed that
he wants to bring back the glory of the game, which has been recently talked about
for its court cases. "For quite sometime we have been witnessing the state of
the Hockey team. Hockey has become like a football, the authorities have dragged
hockey either to courts or some other cases," Pargat said. "It has become such
a divided house, because of that I do not want to see it further divided. We will
unite it and bring back the glory of hockey to that level where it was," he added.
Pargat also said that the coaching and the umpiring system should be upgraded.
"We will reconcile hockey and bring it to a higher level than it is, that is the
top agenda for us. There are a lot of things in the agenda such as to upgrade
the coaching system, to upgrade the umpiring system," Pargat said. He further
said that a calendar of every player should be made, which would include their
peak forms during the year. "I have also been saying that the federation should
at least make a calendar but no one understands what 'calendar' means. They think
that it is a normal calendar that you get from a market. Technically someone who
does not know it's meaning. It means that a player's peak form cannot come more
than three or four times in a year," Pargat said. "The calendar should be made
according to the domestic and the international calendar so that the peak form
of a player is potentially used," he added. The election would be held on July
28. Besides the posts of president and secretary general, elections will be held
for four joint secretary (two male, two female), four vice president (two male,
two female), one senior vice president, treasurer, and five executive members. |
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