A view of the Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium in New Delhi. File
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It will be a two-way fight between incumbent Rohan Jaitley and former India cricketer Kirti Azad for the president’s post in the three-day DDCA elections beginning on Friday (December 13, 2024).
The results will be declared on December 16. The Jaitley-led panel holds significant clout among the 3748 members likely to vote in the elections.
Azad, a member of the 1983 World Cup-winning India team and sitting Trinamool Congress MP from Bardhaman-Durgapur constituency, is confident of change in the Delhi & District Cricket Association, which is not the best governed BCCI-affiliated State unit in the country.
The 65-year-old has levelled massive corruption allegations against the current dispensation ahead of the elections.
“A change is constant. If there is no change there is nothing in life. I am confident. There is an undercurrent. People want change and that change is going to come,” Azad told PTI.
However, an office bearer of the existing dispensation said Jaitley’s panel would win the elections easily. “As far as we see it, it is a no contest. Rohan-led panel will win easily,” he said.
For the vice-president’s position, there is a three-way battle between Rakesh Kumar Bansal, Shikha Kumar and Sudhir Kumar Agarwal.
Interestingly, two out of the four contesting candidates for the secretary share the same name — Sanjay Bhardwaj — who will be up against former secretary Vinod Tihara and Ashok Sharma.
Three candidates are in the race to become treasurer, including Gurpreet Sareen, Harish Singla and Rajan Goel. For the joint secretary’s post, the fight will be between Amit Grover, Kamal Chopra and Karnail Singh.
As many as 25 candidates are in the fray to become DDCA directors.
Published – December 12, 2024 06:07 pm IST