Devajit Saika and Prabhtej Singh Bhatia are set to be elected unopposed as the brand new Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary and treasurer, respectively. Their names are the one two that includes within the remaining record of contesting candidates which was shared on Tuesday.
The BCCI secretary publish was left vacant after Jay Shah took over because the ICC chairman on December 1. Saika had been appointed because the interim secretary.
In the meantime, the treasurer publish was up for grabs after Ashish Shelar took oath as a cupboard minister within the Maharashtra authorities.
The deadline to file the nominations ended final week and the withdrawal of nominations ended on Tuesday at 2 PM. The ultimate record of nominations was ready by the BCCI electoral officer and former Chief Election Commissioner of India, Achal Kumar Joti, on Tuesday.
The election will happen on January 12 on the sidelines of the BCCI’s SGM. The outcomes, that are a formality may also be introduced on the identical day.
Saika was earlier appointed because the interim secretary after board president Roger Binny used his constitutional powers. Binny cited clause 7(1) (d) of the BCCI structure handy secretarial powers to Saika, who’s a former first-class cricketer and likewise an Advocate Common of the state.
“The president shall within the occasion of emptiness or indisposition shall delegate the features to a different workplace bearer till the emptiness is duly crammed up or indisposition ceases.
“Accordingly, I delegate the features of secretary to you until the publish is crammed up by processes laid down as per BCCI guidelines and rules. I’m assured you’ll carry out the duties to the very best of your talents and with aplomb,” Binny wrote to Saikia.
Shah has served within the BCCI secretary position since October 2019. Shah labored on totally different aspects in his position because the BCCI secretary. He gave particular emphasis on home cricket and likewise equalled the match charges of the ladies’s gamers to that of the lads’s gamers.
Shah additionally credit conducting the IPL 2020 amidst COVID-19 as his greatest achievement. “The Olympics, English Premier League and French Open had already been postponed/cancelled. We created an isolation bubble inside which we carried out the event. We demonstrated to the world what BCCI may obtain,” Shah had advised Occasions of India earlier within the 12 months.