Himachal Pradesh Hockey Association

NEW DELHI: Lifetime member and patron of Hockey India Vidya Stokes on Sunday told The Statesman that the election to the Himachal Pradesh Hockey Association (HPHA) held recently in Una, where Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Anurag Thakur was elected president, was illegal.

Thakur, the former BCCI president who was removed from his position following a Supreme Court directive in January 2017, was only "trying to gain political mileage through sports”, Stokes asserted.