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| JKCA members raise banner of revolt against Dr Farooq | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, July 19: The National Conference patron Dr Farooq Abdullah, who is also the president of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA), is all set to lose his post as JKCA has convened a meeting to seek re-elections and elect a new president.
Sources told Early Times the JKCA which comprises of 64 members is divided over the issue of holding new elections for the post of the president. "The JKCA is in a mess and it has been politicized to the hilt. We need to infuse fresh blood into the association to ensure that JKCA is put back on track," said a JKCA member.
He claimed that initially members were reluctant to hold the new elections but at present more than 40 members want that Dr Farooq Abdullah should ousted and the sports minister Imran Ansari is all set to replace Dr Farooq Sources said that in wake of the brewing resentment within the association, the office bearers have convened an emergency meeting of all the members on Monday. "If the majority of the members decide that elections should be held then there is every possibility of Dr Farooq being shown the exit door as most JKCA members want the NC patron out," the sources added.
Unfazed by the present situation, Dr Farooq while talking to a national paper claimed that no such meeting would take place. "I will come out with a statement tomorrow about the issue," he added.
Pertinently, JKCA has remained in news for wrong reasons in the recent past. In 2012 police registered an FIR against former treasurer of the JKCA Ehsan Mirza and former General Secretary Saleem Khan charging them of criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy. The charges against them were of diverting Rs 50 crore, received from BCCI as subsidy, to three different accounts opened in the name of the JKCA by its officials.
The JKCA is getting subsidies from the BCCI annually. According to police, the accounts were opened in the name of the JKCA in Jammu and Kashmir Bank and the BCCI funds were diverted to these "bogus" accounts and subsequently siphoned off.
The transaction in "bogus" accounts was more than the original account as most of funds that would come from BCCI would be deposited in these accounts and subsequently withdrawn using bearers cheques.
Following the controversy JKCA president Dr Farooq Abdullah removed all the officials involved in the scam from the JKCA after an internal inquiry.
For past four years the PDP has been seeking resignation of Dr Farooq arguing he cannot escape responsibility as he heads the association and it was impossible that he had no information about wrongdoings going on in it. |
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