Rohan Jaitley has been appointed as the president of the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) for another term, beating former India player Kirti Azad in the election.
The 35-year-old Jaitley, son of former Union minister late Arun Jaitley, polled 1,577 votes to Azad’s 777 in the race for the top spot.
2 thousand 413 votes were lost and 1 thousand 27 votes were needed to win.
In 2020, Rohan was elected unopposed as DDCA president and a year later, he defeated advocate Vikas Singh.
Former BCCI acting president CK Khanna’s daughter Shikha Kumar (1,246 votes), Rakesh Kumar Bansal (536) and Sudhir Kumar Agarwal (498) claimed the post of vice-president.
Ashok Sharma won 893 as secretary, Harish Singla (1328) as treasurer and Amit Grover (1189) as joint secretary.
Among others, Anand Verma (985), Manjeet Singh (1050), Navdeep M (1034), Shyam Sharma (1165), Tusshar Saigal (926), Vikas Katyal (1054), Vikram Kohli (939) claimed the director’s post.
Azad, a member of the 1983 World Cup-winning team, who is currently a Trinamool Congress MP from the Bardhaman-Durgapur constituency, alleged corruption in the DDCA.
Late Arun Jaitley served as DDCA President for 14 years
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