Mid-Day: New Delhi: Wednesday, July 04, 2018.
Senior
journalist Rajat Sharma yesterday beat World Cup winning India cricketer Madan
Lal by 517 votes to become the new president of Delhi and Districts Cricket
Association.
Sharma's
group swept the elections, winning all 12 seats. With DDCA being the first among
equals to go into elections after the Supreme Court appointed Lodha Committee
suggested path-breaking structural reforms, the polling also witnessed
abolition of proxy system with nearly 3000 voters turning up to cast their
vote. Sharma got a total of 1531 votes while former Test cricketer Lal could
only poll 1004 votes.
In another
major development, the new body will revisit the decision to have DDCA under
Right To Information (RTI) ambit as per Law Commission's recommendations.
"I will try my best to uphold the democratic traditions of DDCA,"
Sharma told mediapersons after accepting the charge from Delhi High Court
appointed administrator Justice Vikramajit Sen.
While Justice
Sen had brought DDCA under RTI ambit, the newly elected body is unlikely to toe
the line and a meeting will soon be held to revoke the administrator's diktat.
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