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Vilasrao
Deshmukh Mumbai Cricket Association's new chief
Saturday July 16, 2011 08:11:55 AM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Vilasrao
Deshmukh, the union minister for science and technology, Friday
became the new president of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA),
defeating former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar in a
highly-publicised contest.
Deshmukh, a former Maharashtra chief minister, defeated Vengsarkar
by a margin of 45 votes in a straight contest.
A vice-president in the outgoing MCA executive committee headed by
union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Deshmukh polled 181 votes
to Vengsarkar's 136 to win the biennial election.
Deshmukh thus became the third former chief minister after Manohar
Joshi (1992-2001) and Pawar (2001-2011) to become the MCA chief.
Pawar's group supported Deshmukh after the agriculture minister
was unable to contest as he has changed his permanent residence
from Mumbai to his native Baramati and the MCA constitution has a
clause that stipulates the candidates be permanent residents of
the megapolis.
Prof Ratnakar Shetty and Ravi Sawant from Pawar's group were
elected vice-president and treasurer while D. Y. Patil Sports
Academy's chairman Vijay Patil, who contested as an independent,
became the second vice-president.
The two new joint secretaries, Dr P.V. Shetty and Nitin Dalal, are
also from the Pawar panel.
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