BCCI to elect President on Oct 4

BCCI to elect President on Oct 4
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BCCI to elect President on Oct 4. Former president Shashank Manohar is the sole candidate for the top post of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which has fallen vacant after the demise of Jagmohan Dalmiya, its secretary, Anurag Thakur, said here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Former president Shashank Manohar is the sole candidate for the top post of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which has fallen vacant after the demise of Jagmohan Dalmiya, its secretary, Anurag Thakur, said here on Tuesday.

Thakur also said BCCI has called a Special General Meeting (SGM) in Mumbai on October 4 at 2 pm. where a decision regarding the vacant chair will be taken adding scrutiny of the nominations will be done a day ahead of the meeting.

The BCCI chief's chair has been lying vacant since Dalmiya died in Kolkata on September 20. As per BCCI's constitution, a notification for a SGM to nominate a successor has to be issued within 15 days of the incumbent's death.

Manohar, a lawyer by profession, earlier held the post from 2008 to 2011. “Shashank Manohar is the only candidate for the BCCI president's post. A decision regarding it will be taken in BCCI's SGM in Mumbai on October 4,” Thakur said.

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