India, Nov. 24 -- Finally, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) has a constitution. The formal adoption of two clauses pertaining to one person holding one post on Monday ended an eight-year saga involving the Supreme Court, FIFA and Asian Football Confederation.

The clauses state that an AIFF executive committee member shall "automatically be deemed to have vacated his/her position in the Member Association" and that while being in the national federation, no member can be elected in a member association. Barring these clauses, the constitution was adopted by AIFF on October 12.

"The AIFF Constitution is now in accordance with the directions of the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India and the framework recommended by Justice (Retd) L Nag...