Question: Who was elected unanimously again in the elections of the recently concluded All India Chess Federation?
(A) Bharat Singh Chauhan
(B) Naresh Sharma
(C) Shekhar Chandra Sahu
(D) P.R. Venkatarama Raja
Answer- (d)
Related facts
- On June 25, 2017 P.R. Venkatarama Raja of Tamilnadu was unanimously elected as the president of All India Chess Federation (AICF).
- His tenure will be till 2020.
- The new office bearers of AICF were selected in the Annual General Meeting of the Association (Chennai).
- Bharat Singh Chauhan of Delhi was elected as honorary secretary. He replaced V. Hariharan.
- Other office bearers are:
- Treasurer – Kishore M. Bandekar (Goa)
- Vice President – DV Sundar (Tamil Nadu), A. Bhakta Vatsalam (Puducherry), A. Narasimha Reddy (Telangana), Shekhar Chandra Sahu (Odisha), G. Bhaskar (Andaman) and Manoj Itkelvar (Maharashtra).
- Joint Secretary-R Hanumantha (Karnataka), Kapil Saxena (Madhya Pradesh), Atanu Lahiri (West Bengal), THB Singh (Meghalaya), Naresh Sharma (Haryana) and Bhavesh Patel (Gujarat).
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