Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Ajit Agarkar, Sanjay Manjrekar, Wasim Jaffer, Vinod Kambli, Avishkar Salvi and Paras Mhambrey won’t be allowed to vote within the upcoming Mumbai Cricket Association elections to be held on October 18. trigger? He didn’t submit his voter ID card and registration earlier than the election.
Sandeep Patil, who’s contesting for the put up of MCA President, had requested to permit e-voting for the MCA elections however it was turned down. Gavaskar, Manjrekar and Agarkar are anticipated to be a part of the commentary panel for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia. While Mhambrey is India’s bowling coach, Salvi and Jaffer are on teaching assignments.
Sandeep Patil will tackle the incumbent vp of MCA and Amol Kale, a candidate backed by the Sharad Pawar-Ashish Shelar group.
Along with the members of the Governing Council, the MCA can even be contested for the posts of Honorary Secretary, Treasurer and Apex Council. Retired Senior Inspector Deepak Patil has been declared unopposed as Joint Secretary, and the MCA might be no match for the put up of Vice President of the MCA as all of the candidates have determined to withdraw.
“As I filed my nomination for the post of Treasurer of BCCI, I have today withdrawn my nomination as the candidate for the post of President of MCA. Our candidate will be Amol Kale, we discussed with Sharad Pawar and the nomination of Kale as the President of MCA has already been done. So he will contest one post from our group,” Shelar advised reporters.
NCP (Nationalist Congress Party) chief Pawar and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mumbai chief Shelar have joined fingers to combat the MCA elections collectively. The Pawar-Shelar group has additionally backed former minister Jitendra Awhad within the Maha Vikas Aghadi for a place within the Apex Council, whereas Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s private assistant Milind Narvekar has additionally been roped in from the identical group.
Vihang Sarnaik, son of MLA Pratap Sarnaik and a key member of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s camp, has been elected unopposed because the chairman of the Mumbai Premier League T20 from the Pawar-Shelar group.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
