Rohan Jaitley Re-Elected DDCA President, Defeats Kirti Azad

Rohan, son of former Union minister Arun Jaitley, bagged 1577 votes while his opponent Azad fetched 777.

Rohan Jaitley, the incumbent Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) president, won the second term on Tuesday, defeating former Indian cricketer and sitting Trinamool Congress MP from Bardhaman-Durgapur constituency, Kirti Azad.

Rohan, son of former Union minister Arun Jaitley, bagged 1577 votes while his opponent Azad fetched 777.

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The group members of Jaitley-CK Khanna clinched all other posts. For vice president, Shikha Kumar (1246 votes) defeated Rakesh Kumar Bansal (536) and Sudhir Kumar Agarwal (498).

The fight for the secretary post was initially close between the Jaitley camp's Ashok Sharma and Vinod Tihara. However, as the day progressed, Sharma managed to get the lead and emerged victorious with 893 votes. Tihara got 744.

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Harish Singla with 1328 votes won the race for treasurer's post, while Amit Grover elected joint secretary (1189).

The winners for directors' post were, Anand Verma (985), Manjit Singh (1050), Navdeep M (1034), Shyam Sharma (1165), Tushar Saigal (926), Vikas Katyal (1054), Vikram Kohli (939).

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Rohan Jaitley was elected unopposed in October 2020 as president after Sunil Kumar Goel, who was the only other candidate to have filed his nomination against him, withdrew his candidature.

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