OCA Election Committee chair Rohinton Nariman said the committee had met to review the curriculum vitae and eligibility requirements of all nominated candidates submitted by OCA National Olympic Committees (NOCs).

The committee also evaluated all nominees for the other OCA zonal vice-presidents, including Timothy Fok (Hong Kong) and Battushig Batbold (Mongolia) representing the east, and Prince Jigyel Wangchuk (Bhutan) and Maxwell De Silva (Sri Lanka) for South Asia, Rohinton said in a statement yesterday.

The other nominees are Otabek Umarov (Uzbekistan) and Sadyr Mamytov (Kyrgyzstan) for the central zone and Thani Al Kuwari (Qatar) for West Asia.

According to the statement, acting OCA president Raja Randhir Singh is the sole eligible candidate for the OCA presidency as the committee unanimously approved his nomination, proposed by the NOC of India and supported by 27 OCA member NOCs.

“Mongolian Olympic Committee president Battushig Batbold, who was nominated by the NOC of Mongolia, was deemed ineligible by the committee as he does not fulfil the eligibility requirements set out in the OCA constitution in Articles 22.1.2.1, 22.1.2.2 and 22.1.2.3,” it said.

It said that after the meeting, the committee was informed by the Mongolian NOC secretary-general via email that Batbold had withdrawn his candidacy for the president’s post.