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Reinstated officials must take watchdog role in ANFA

All Nepal Football Association continually hogs the media limelight for different reasons. It is once again at center of debate with regards to the future of football in Nepal. The one thing we all can agree upon is that All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) is in dire need of meaningful reforms and genuine transparency at all levels to turn things around for the better. Things are gradually starting to heat up, following reinstatement of the four suspended ANFA executives Karma Tshering Sherpa, Pankaj Nembang, Bijaya Narayan Manandhar and Kishore Rai to their posts. It may be recalled that the four were up in arms over Mr. Thapa’s disastrous leadership and decades of autocratic rule. They reached a point they could not take it anymore and were resolute to take him down. They had accused the ex- ANFA honcho of high handedness, abuse of power, mismanagement, corruption and unfairness. As a consequence, flexing his despotic muscles Mr. Thapa unfairly suspended them i