Question: Who has been unanimously elected as the BCCI president at the board’s special general meeting(SGM) in Mumbai?
(a) Ajay Shirke
(b) Anurag Singh Thakur
(c) C. K Khanna
(d) Ajay Mathur
Ans.(b)
Related facts:
- Anurag Thakur has been unanimously elected as the BCCI president at the board’s special general meeting in Mumbai on 22 may 2016.
- Thakur succeeded Shashank Manohar, who had stepped down as president a week ago so that he would be eligible to be elected the ICC’s first independent chairman.
- Thakur, former BCCI secretary, was the only nominee for the post and he will serve as president until September 2017.
- With this he is the second youngest president of the BCCI.
- Earlier Fateh Singh Gaekwad was the youngest president of the BCCI, who took over at the age of 33 in 1963.
- Ajay Shirke, the Maharashtra Cricket Association president has been selected as the BCCI secretary , the post was vacant following the resignation of Anurag Thakur.
Reference:
http://www.bcci.tv/news/2016/news/13529/profile-mr-anurag-singh-thakur-president-bcci
http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/1018033.html