Jagmohan Dalmiya is back as president of Indian cricket after being
unanimously elected to the post at the Board of Control for Cricket in India's
(BCCI) Annual General Meeting in Chennai on Monday.
This will
be his second term at the helm in the Indian cricket board, more than a decade
after his first term ended.
According
to reports, Anirudh Choudhary has been elected as treasurer of the body, while
Anurag Thakur beat Sanjay Patel to the post of BCCI secretary.
BJP
leader Thakur, it is learnt, won by just one vote over Srinivasan loyalist
Patel, a scenario unlikely to have emerged had there not been cross-voting
during the election process.
However,
the fact that other anti-Srinivasan camp candidates lost the elections proved
that cross-voting took place only for Thakur.
Barring
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association chief Thakur's surprise win, ruling camp
loyalists swept the elections for the other posts at the much-postponed AGM,
where Srinivasan himself could not contest for the President's post owing to a
Supreme Court directive.
Jharkhand
Cricket Association's Amitabha Chodhary was elected the Joint Secretary beating
Goa's Chetan Desai, belonging to the anti-Srinivasan faction, while Haryana's
Anirudh Choudhary won the treasurer's position by defeating Rajiv Shukla.
While
three vice-Presidents were elected unopposed, the two other positions also went
to Srinivasan’s group, with T C Mathews (Kerala, west zone) and C K Khanna
(Delhi, central zone) winning the polls. Khanna defeated the influential
Jyotiraditya Scindia, while Mathews edged Ravi Sawant.
The three
who were elected unopposed were Andhra's Gokaraju Gangaraju (south zone),
Assam's Goutam Roy (east) with M L Nehru of Jammu and Kashmir representing the
north zone.
The road
for Dalmiya was cleared after another former president Sharad Pawar failed to
get a proposer from East Zone, prompting the Maratha strongman to pull out of
the race ahead of Monday's much-delayed Annual General Meeting.
The
70-year-old Dalmiya, president of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), controls
two votes from East Zone and had on Saturday emerged as a front-runner for the
top post since no other name was unanimously acceptable to all the units loyal
to Srinivasan.
Dalmiya's
bid got a boost on Sunday after Pawar failed to get any proposer from East Zone,
whose turn it is to nominate the next BCCI president.
All the
six state units from East Zone owed allegiance to the Srinivasan camp as his
loyalists met in Chennai ahead of the Annual General Meeting.
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