monika staab was also present on the occasion justice sk agarwal a retired judge of the delhi high court was the returning officer the election have been held in consonance with the sports code guidelines and the aiff constitution at the same time all nominated persons for the post of officebearers and executive committee members were elected unanimously agarwal said while dempo sports clubs owner srinivas dempo was elected vicepresident from the west zone congress mla and dsa president subhash chopra is the representative from the north zone the first in the history of delhi football shillong lajong club owner larsing ming sawyn replaced ankur dutta from the northeast keralas k m i mather was elevated to the post of vicepresident from south general secretary kushal das said the aiff is hopeful of india getting the 2017 u17 world cup even though fifa did not discuss the countrys bid in its last executive committee meeting on december 14 the government has given us that letter of support and fifa needs some clarifications on that we are expecting a letter from fifa soon they have some question on the government letter of support fifa wants it in a certain manner in the form of guarantees das said asked for his take on the election das said under aiff constitution if someone has been a general secretary or president of aiff for four years in the past 12 years he is entitled to be elected there are certain small technical issues das said india will play a friendly against palestine on february 6 next year at guwahati with the next one scheduled to be held some time in september on the mohun bagan issue the federation said a conclusion could be arrived at only after the hearing on december 24