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Former India women’s skipper Diana Edulji, incumbent Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) president Ajinkya Naik, and 3 governmental leaders are among the 8 candidates who person filed their information papers for the station of MCA president up of the elections scheduled for November 12.
Monday — the last time of the weeklong information model — witnessed frenetic enactment astatine the MCA bureau successful the Wankhede Stadium premises, with arsenic galore arsenic 105 applications submitted to predetermination serviceman J.S. Saharia.
Edulji, the seasoned cricketer-turned-administrator, is the lone salient cricketing fig successful the fray. She has filed her information for some the president and vice-president posts. Among the others to record nominations are Prasad Lad, MLC from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); Milind Narvekar, MLC from the Shiv Sena (UBT) and a adjacent adjutant of erstwhile Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray; and Jitendra Awhad, MLA from the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar Group).
Both Narvekar and Awhad are members of the outgoing MCA Apex Council. Their workfellow Suraj Samat, who narrowly mislaid the secretary’s predetermination to Abhay Hadap past year, has besides entered the contest, on with Vihang Sarnaik, the Mumbai T20 League president and lad of Maharashtra’s transport curate Pratak Sarnaik.
Interestingly, outgoing president Naik has filed his papers contempt having completed six consecutive years successful the MCA Apex Council, which makes him taxable to a mandatory cooling-off play nether the Supreme Court-directed Lodha Committee reforms applicable to each authorities cricket associations. The eighth applicant is Shahalm Shaikh, erstwhile MCA associated secretary.
It remains to beryllium seen whether Naik’s exertion volition beryllium accepted by the predetermination officer. The aggregate nominations received for assorted positions suggest a deficiency of statement among MCA’s cardinal powerfulness blocs — including the governmental heavyweights who traditionally exert power down the scenes.
The scrutiny of nominations volition instrumentality spot connected Tuesday, portion November 7 (Friday) is the past day for withdrawal of applications.
