Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, July 19: Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) today unanimously elected Minister for Youth Services and Sports, Imran Raza Ansari, as its president for one year.
The elections were held after one year today at JKCA office in SK Cricket Stadium at Sonwar in Srinagar. Last year, Ansari, ended National Conference president Farooq Abdullah’s three-decade tenure as JKCA president. He was today elected as president for the second time by the members of the JKCA, unanimously.
Ansari told Excelsior that last year when he was elected as president, he had made it clear that the elections of the JKCA would be held every year and he fulfilled his promise. “At the time of taking over as president of the JKCA last year, we had promised to hold elections within a period of one year and we have done that today,” he said.
Ansari said the new JKCA team will work hard towards taking the game to the grass roots in the State so that deserving players get to represent the Association at highest levels of competition.
The election of Ansari is total disregard to the Supreme Court accepting Lodha Panel recommendations on reforms in the BCCI which bar ministers from becoming office bearers. However, Ansari said that SC has given six months time for its implementation and at that time “we will see how to go ahead.”
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