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Madikeri, Sep. 10: The prestigious Kodava Hockey Academy has its own history, and this time the issue of the formation of the next governing body of the academy has aroused great interest.
This is the first time in the history of the academy that there is an election in the midst of an election. In 1997, the Kodava Hockey Festival was started among Kodava families through the Panda Cup Hockey Namme. Panda M. Kuttappa, who was responsible for starting this special tournament, is considered the father of this family hockey festival.
This hockey festival, which has created a stir not only in Kodagu district but also in the world, has now created a record in the Guinness Book of Records, Limca Book of Records, World Book of Records in its 25-year history, making this family hockey festival the most prestigious tournament of the Kodava community of Kodagu that has attracted the attention of the world. It is being held every year under the Kodava Hockey Academy formed for this purpose. Various families have been organizing this tournament every year, and the Kodava Hockey Academy, which was formed for this purpose, has been handling the important responsibility of providing an opportunity for the Hockey Namme project to various families in the past. This academy had not come into existence when the festival started in 1997. Pandada Kuttappa himself took the lead. The following year, the Kodi family continued this family festival. The festival, which started with 60 teams, has now reached a record participation of 396 families.
When the Kodi family continued the festival for the 2nd year, more families came forward to organize it. On this occasion, the Kodava Hockey Academy was started in 1999 for its smooth management. This academy is a registered organization and has its own bylaws. But the decision was made at that time that Pandada Kuttappa, who was the reason for the festival and laid the foundation for it, would continue as the founding president as long as he was alive. On the one hand, the bylaws provided for holding elections for the academy's governing body in the future. Pandada Kuttappa passed away during the Corona pandemic, after which his son Pandada K. Bopanna took over the presidency of the academy and has been successfully carrying out this responsibility till now. Earlier, when Kuttappa was the president, Kalengada Ramesh was the working president. Other office bearers had been handling the responsibility of the academy together. After Kuttappa's disappearance, his son Bopanna took over the presidency and led it. 4A¼ During this period, Makeri's Ravi Pemmaiah was the working president and his team was in power at the academy till now.
Now, the term of the current governing body has ended in May, and since then, there was no election due to the annual tournament.
After that, the election was scheduled for August 31st and the election process was held. However, due to some confusion in this regard, the election was postponed for various reasons. The election was postponed as per the directions of Chokira Poovaiah, who had retired as the Returning Officer.
Now scheduled for Sep. 28
The election for the new management board of the Kodava Hockey Academy for the next 3 years has now been scheduled for Sep. 28th, and the processes related to this are officially starting. What is special is that this time there is a lot of competition for the management board. Since the academy was started in 1999, there has been an unopposed election but no election has been held. However, this time the situation is taking a different turn.
It is almost certain that two teams will compete for the new management board. One team led by the current president Padanda K. Bopanna and the other team led by Makeri Ravi Pemmaiah, who is the working president, are in the competition. The team led by Pandada Bopanna and the team led by Ravi Pemmaiah are already ready.
In one team, Bopanna is contesting for the post of president, former Olympian Cheppudira S. Poonachcha for the post of executive president, Ramesh Muddaya from Kundyola taluk for the post of vice president, and Suresh Appaiah from Koothanda Virajpet taluk. Arun Beba from Kulleti is contesting for the post of general secretary, Deepu Changappa from Nayakanda is contesting for the post of joint secretary, and B. Somaiah from Mukkathira, Rakhi Poovanna from Kambir, (woman) Bollepanda J. Cariappa, Kalianda Sampan Ayyappa, Chekkera Adarsh, Sullimada Deepak Monnappa, Muddanda Rashin Subbaiah, and Mukesh Monnaiah from Mandepada are contesting for the post of director.
Another team led by Ravi Pemmaiah from Makeri is also certain to contest. Responding to this with 'Shakti', Ravi Pemmaiah said that he will announce the names of his group's candidates in a day or two.
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