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Kalyan Chaubey elected to the hot seat; becomes the first player President of AIFF

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Kalyan Chaubey, a former goalkeeper with Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, is elected the new president of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) by defeating Bhaichung Bhutia 33-1.

In its 85-year history, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) got a former player as its president. The former goalkeeper, who is also a BJP leader, won against legendary Bhaichung Bhutia in the election for the top post. 

Chaubey’s victory was not a surprise since his candidature was backed by Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh, but the fact that Bhutia could not even get his state association representative as proposer or seconder for filing his nomination papers.

Just after losing the presidential polls, Bhutia had said that he will be in the executive committee as co-opted member.

NA Haris, the Karnataka football head, was elected vice-president defeating fellow Congressman Manvendra Singh. Kipa Ajay, from Arunachal Pradesh, is the new treasurer as he beat Gopalakrishna Kosaraju of Andhra 32-1.

Kalyan Chaubey never played for the India senior team but was a regular goalkeeper in Mohun Bagan and East Bengal. 

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Poulomi Kundu
PoulomiKundu started her career in 2000 as a freelance journalist in Hindustan Times. Soon after she was selected an intern in Zee News, Kolkata. After her post- graduation in English, Poulomi joined the leading television production house of eastern India, Rainbow Productions. She was a journalist in Khas Khobor, a Bengali news magazine programme in Doordarshan and also headed the post production department of another programme, Khas Kolkata. In 2004, Poulomi moved to Delhi as a creative writer in an advertising agency, Brand Stewards Pvt. Ltd. In 2005, she again shifted her base for a better opportunity and that in Mumbai. There she got the job in Raa Media Pvt Ltd. as an associate director of two programmes for Doordarshan-Yuva and Paisa Vasool. In the meantime, she also wrote features in DNA as a freelancer. Poulomi directs promotional videos, develops scripts for films for Corporate and NGOs. But an ardent sports lover, Poulomi always had an urge to contribute somewhere in the field of sports. Her love for sports started from an early age when she played gully cricket and football for local teams. Academics and professional hazards sometimes took her away from her passion, but it never died in her. She always nurtured the never-ending dream. So she materialized her dream in the form of ‘SPORTSAVOUR’. It is an online sports portal that serves sports with the tagline ‘For the indigenous, unconventional, unknown’.

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