BCCI gets into a huddle, few names crop up for president's post

NEW DELHI: All eyes will be on BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur as the top brass of the cricket board will get together in the next fortnight to decide on the way forard due to sudden demise of Jagmohan Dalmiya.

The selection or election of the president may not be the easiest of jobs given that BCCI is in a limbo in the current scenario.

While Rajeev Shukla's name is doing the rounds, the UPCA president and Congress leader would require support from eastern state in order to become the president.

East's vice-president Gautam Roy could also be a candidate considering he is the senior-most amongst the five VPs having first been elected as vice-president at board's gwalior AGM in 1992. But Roy might not have many backers in BCCI. Ditto for Delhi's CK Khanna, who is the vice-president from Central Zone.

As per BCCI constitution, Thakur will have to convene a Special General Body Meeting to elect the president but it is still not clear whether he can do so considering the next date of the working committee will only be decided after Supreme Court gives its verdict.

According to the BCCI constitution, if a president's post is vacated midway through his tenure, "the secretary shall within 15 days convene a Special General Body Meeting to elect the President who shall be nominated by at least one Full Member from the zone which proposed the name of the President whose term was cut short prematurely. Such person who is so elected shall hold office till the next elections."

Now if it would have been a straightaway case, then one of the vice-presidents, technically Roy could have assumed chair but that power equations in BCCI are such that it would not be easy to predict the next move.