Presidents of a total 42 sports bodies including federations, associations and a confederation have been removed for the post, according to a circular by Ministry of Youth and Sports Tuesday.
The sports federations are athletics, badminton, shooting, handball, judo, karate, taekwondo, table tennis, gymnastics, basketball, archery, amateur boxing, basap, rugby, fencing, weightlifting, wushu, carom, cycling, tennis, amateur wrestling, roller skating, volleyball, squash racket, rowing and kho kho.
The sports associations are baseball-softball, surfing, mountaineering, chukball, sepat takrow, jujutsu, para archery, country games, throw ball, international taekwondo, kite, khiukushin karate and only confederation is Bangladesh Martial Art Confederation.
The president of Bangladesh Women’s Sports Association has also been removed.
Bangladesh Bodhir Krira Federation and National Para Olympic Committee of Bangladesh also saw their president removed.
The circular signed by deputy secretary SM Humayun Kabir stated the decision has been taken according to No. 22 clause of National Sports Council Act, 2018 to make the respective sports bodies more active with the aim to reform.
