Maintaining their hold over the prestigious Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), BCCI chief Sharad Pawar and his supporters swept the elections for the organisation held on Wednesday, with their group winning all the 16 positions up for grabs.
While Pawar, who is also the Union Agriculture Minister, faced no opposition from any quarter for his re-election to the post of MCA president. His supporters, who were contesting as part of the Bal Mahhadalkar group, won the other seats by comfortable margins.
The only opposition to the Mahhadalkar group was the United Sporting Panel, which fielded 10 candidates for the various posts but failed to win any of them.
Cricket clubs, who are members of the association, voted for the candidates with 329 clubs casting their votes.
BCCI Chief Administrative officer Ratnakar Shetty and Indian team chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar comfortably retained their posts of Treasurer and Vice-President of the association respectively.
Other elected office-bearers included Ravi Savant (Vice-President), while Hemant Waigankar and P V Shetty were elected Joint Secretaries.
Eleven persons were also elected to the managing committee of the association. The committee members are Lalchand Rajput, Javed Rizvi, Nitin Dalal, Vinod Deshpande, Deepak Murkar, Madhu Patwardhan, Sanjay Patil, Milind Rege, Avi Sule, Pankaj Thakur and Ramesh Vajge.
