Journalist Rajat Sharma elected as new DDCA President

Senior journalist Rajat Sharma today beat World Cup winning India cricketer Madan Lal by 517 votes to become the new president of Delhi and Districts Cricket Association The results of the DDCA polls were announced today and Sharmas group swept the elections winning all 12 seatsSharma got a total of 1531 votes while former Test cricketer Lal could only poll 1004 votes The third candidate in the fray advocate Vikas Singh got 232 votes only It was a major setback for BCCI acting president CK Khanna whose wife Shashi lost the vicepresidential battle against Rakesh Bansal younger brother of former DDCA president Sneh BansalRajesh beat Shashi by 278 votes while Bansal junior got 1364 votes to Shashis 1086 votes The defeat might prove to be the end of the road for Khanna in DDCA where he enjoyed supreme power for nearly three decades Sharma and his panels candidature was backed by a political heavyweight from the ruling party with the IOA president Narinder Batra throwing in all his might Batra incidentally is a former DDCA treasurerThe moment Sharma got blessings from a senior cabinet minister there was no chance in hell for any other candidate to win this election What was not expected was a clean panel sweep It will be good that Sharma will get a free hand to run the body This also means that CK Khannas reign in DDCA ends unless he strikes some deal with Sharma a senior DDCA official told PTI on conditions of anonymitySharma was always considered as the favourite to win against Lal who was backed by Khanna and former India opener Chetan Chauhans groupWith DDCA being the first among equals to go into elections after the Supreme Court appointed Lodha Committee suggested pathbreaking structural reforms the polling also witnessed abolition of proxy system with nearly 3000 voters turning up to cast their voteAmong the other notable winners was former sports committee head Vinod Tihara 1374 votes who became secretary defeating nearest rival Manjeet Singh 998 by 376 votes Tihara is expected to run the daily affairs of DDCA including a big say in all the representative teams especially Ranji Trophy and mens age groupThe joint secretarys post went to Rajan Manchanda 1402 younger brother of former treasurer Ravinder who beat Pushpender Chauhan 953 by 449 votes Pushpender is the younger brother of Chetan Chauhan For treasurers post Om Prakash Sharma beat Deepak Singh by 1241891 votesCoach Sanjay Bhardwaj was elected for the directors post firstclass cricketer while Renu Khanna became the woman director Notable among other directors were Apruv Jain son of former media manager Ravi Jain who polled 1286 votes Alok Mittal Nitin Gupta Shiv Nandan Sharma and Nitin AgarwalAlso Read A First In India As DDCA Comes Under RTI ActCatch up on all the latest sports news and updates here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Except for the change in headline the story has been provided ASIS AS AVAILABLE without any verification or editing from our side Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever