BCCI Electoral Officer, who  h "disqualified" state association members & issued a "criteria" clarification for "ineligibility"  is w found batting on a "sticky wicket." Electoral Officer N Gopalaswamy was 'conspicuous by his absence' this afteron when Sourav Ganguly, Jay Shah, and Arun Dhumal filed ir mination papers for post of BCCI president, secretary, and treasurer respectively.

What exactly h happened?

trio waited for Gopalswamy in his BCCI office till 3 pm deline and finally handed over mination papers to legal team of  BCCI. Though Ganguly played down incident, Dhumal was surprised by turn of events and could t understand reason for delay or absence. As per tice sent by electoral officer to full members of BCCI, time for filing mination was from 11 am until 3 pm. 

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A BCCI member, on condition of anymity, said "re are so strict rules for BCCI members, state associations representatives but why conventional rules do t apply to Electoral Officer? Never before this happened. re is a proper way of conducting things. Remember, se five posts are biggest and top most posts in BCCI and you have Electoral Officer missing."

Though it's t mandatory that papers needed to be filed before Electoral Officer but its a shift from convention and certainly isn't praise-worthy. 

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New office bearers of BCCI

Sourav Ganguly is current President of Cricket Association of Bengal and would bring in immense experience as a player, captain, and n as a coach-mentor. He was Chairman of BCCI technical committee and has been a media personality for many years. When new office bearers assume office, it will end a 33-month term of Committee of ministrators (CoA), which took decisions in running cricket affairs in country post-Lodha Committee reforms. Union Home Minister Amit Shah's son Jay Shah will be new secretary while Arun Dhumal will be new treasurer. Dhumal is younger bror of MoS Finance and former BCCI president Anurag Thakur.

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