NEW DELHI: Rohan Jaitley is set to retain his position as president of the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) for second successive term.
The DDCA elections counting trend on Monday suggested a clean sweep for Jaitley against former India allrounder and 1983 World Cup winner Kirti Azad.
65-year-old Azad, an adversary of Rohan's father late Arun Jaitley for years, and sitting Trinamool Congress MP, was trailing Jaitley having received less than 50 percent of the votes that the 35-year-old had garnered till late on Monday night.
At the time of going to press, 1600 out of 2300 votes had been counted. Jaitley had received 1043 votes while Azad had got 511 votes. In fact, the entire panel of Azad and Sanjay Bhardwaj stared at a rout. Jaitley was first elected unopposed in Oct 2020 after then president Rajat Sharma had resigned citing corruption in the association. Jaitley then went on to win his first DDCA election in Oct 2021.
Shikha Kumar, daughter of former acting BCCI president, CK Khanna, was headed for an overwhelming win to become the vice-president in place of her mother Shashi Khanna. Shikha had filed her nomination as part of Jaitley's panel. Shikha had got 814 votes while her next competitor Rakesh Kumar Bansal was at 366 votes.
