In a dramatic turn of events, one of the most successful Indian skipper, Sourav Ganguly emerged as a consensus candidate to become BCCI’s new President after Brijesh Patel seemed to have seized the coveted position. Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah is expected to become the new secretary while Arun Dhumal will be the new treasurer. Dhumal is the younger brother of MoS Finance and former BCCI president Anurag Thakur.
Monday is the last day to file nominations but no election will be taking place since all candidates have emerged unopposed after weeks of lobbying and hectic parleys. Currently, Ganguly is serving as the president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) and now he will have to demit his post in September 2020 as he will go into the mandatory cooling-off period.
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Brijesh, who has strong support from the Tamil Nadu strongman N Srinivasan, emerged as a Presidential candidate when Ganguly remained non-committal on campaigning for the BJP in the 2021 state assembly elections. However, when most of the state units opposed the ‘understanding’, things changed dramatically.
As per the quotes in PTI, a senior BCCI official said, “Yes, Brijesh was running for the President’s post with N Srinivasan actively lobbying for him. However, there was stiff resistance against him. We are happy Sourav is the new President.”
The choice for President’s post was always between Ganguly and Patel and the former was finally accepted as a unanimous candidate. When the new office bearers assume office, it will end a 33-month term of the Committee of Administrators, which called the shots in running the cricket affairs in the country after the Lodha Committee reforms.
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Former India coach Anshuman Gaekwad beat Kirti Azad to be elected as the male ICA representative on BCCI’s nine-member Apex Council. Shanta Rangaswamy was earlier elected unopposed as the female ICA representative.
