Former Maharashtra sports minister Ashish Shelar, 48, who is confident of clinching the president's post in the Boxing Federation of India's (BFI) upcoming elections, bemoaned the fact that the federation doesn't even have an office.

"For a sport which has brought so much glory to the country, our [BFI] administrative state is such that we don't even have an office of our own, even on rent," Shelar said.