Jagmohan
Dalmiya was elected unopposed as the BCCI's new president replacing N
Srinivasan in the elections held in Chennai on Monday. Shivlal Yadav
chaired the BCCI AGM and also monitored proceedings in Chennai. Anurag
Thakur, the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association chief, is the new
Secretary of the BCCI. Thakur beat Sanjay Patel by one vote to clinch
the post. The victory of Thakur was also a setback for N Srinivasan's
camp. Sanjay Patel was a close aide of Srinnivasan while Thakur was
supported by Sharad Pawar.
Other posts:
- CK Khanna from DDCA will be the vice president from Central Zone. He beat Jyotiraditya Scindia of Madhya Pradesh. Another win for the Srinivasan camp.
- Anirudh Chaudhry beat Rajiv Shukla for the post of treasurer.
- TC Mathew will be vice president from West Zone although he came in representing Kerala. He pipped Ravi Sawant of Mumbai.
- Joint secretary post went to Amitabh Chaudhary. There was a tie between Chaudhary and Chetan Desai. (The casting vote to break the tie was done by the chairman of the AGM, Shivlal Yadav). Chaudhary's win was a victory for the Srinivasan camp as Desai was fielded by Pawar.
There
was some controversy earlier in the day when the suspended Rajasthan
Cricket Association went ahead to try and take part in the AGM but
weren't allowed to enter.
Dalmiya, a former head of the ICC,
emerged as the front-runner amid backroom negotiations for votes at
elections. According to reports, Dalmiya was the strongest contender
after garnering the support of six East Zone units. Apparently, he was
the "consensus candidate" among rival factions for BCCI president, a
position he held a decade ago, a report in PTI said.
The Supreme
Court barred Srinivasan from standing as a candidate for BCCI chief,
although he can cast his vote, following its probe into a betting and
fixing scandal surrounding the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The
court in January found Srinivasan guilty of a conflict of interest for
having commercial dealings in the sport by owning an IPL franchise while
he was also BCCI head. Srinivasan is the current ICC chief while
Dalmiya served as ICC president for three years from 1997 to 2000.
Dalmiya
was ousted by rivals as BCCI chief in 2005 after a more than
decade-long reign over the BCCI. The 74-year-old is credited with
helping to turn the game into a lucrative global sport. He twice brought
the World Cup to the Indian sub-continent, in 1987 and 1996. A BCCI
spokesman declined to comment on the media reports, while Dalmiya
himself could not be contacted.
Dalmiya had attended the February
08 meeting of the BCCI working committee. Speaking to the Indian
Express, one member of the CAB had said he was monitoring the Supreme
Court developments on Srinivasan and he prepared himself as the
consensus candidate.
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