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Gaurav Kanthwal
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 19
No new members will take part in the elections for the office-bearers of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) scheduled on September 27. HPCA’s 12 district units have been shorn of their voting powers. Earlier, the district units had two votes, but now under the new constitution compliant to the Lodha Committee recommendations, their voting right has been reduced to one. A new category “Donor Member” has been introduced in the HPCA constitution in which an individual can get full voting rights by donating money to the state cricket body.
“At present, there are nearly 60 to 65 members with voting rights. No new members have been inducted for the September 27 elections. Only the existing members are eligible to vote in the state unit polls. All the former First-Class cricketers who have applied for the HPCA’s membership will have to wait for now as they will be first introduced in the apex council. Their names will then be nominated by the Himachal players’ association as and when it will be formed,” said RP Singh, HPCA director.
Singh denied reports that the HPCA office-bearers had nominated Arun Thakur as their state representative in the BCCI Annual General Body meeting even before the state unit election had taken place. “There is no truth in it. Nothing as such happened,” Singh said.
There were reports that the Committee of Administrators (CoA) rejected HPCA’s contention because the power of nominating a representative of the state unit for the BCCI AGM is with the state Annual General Body.
Azharuddin files nomination for HCA prez post
Hyderabad: Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin has filed his nomination for the post of president in the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA). The elections will be held on September 27. Azharuddin, whose nomination was rejected two years ago, submitted his papers to former Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath. Meanwhile, the Vidarbha Cricket Association said it will not be holding any fresh polls after conducting the elections last December as per the amended constitution. A senior official asserted that Vidarbha was one of the first state associations to have amended its constitution as per the Lodha panel reforms. PTI
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