Dilip Vengsarkar resigns as MCA vice-president
Pawar was ineligible to continue as he had crossed 70 years age while Vengsarkar held office with the MCA for more than nine years.
Mumbai: Former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar resigned as vice-president of the Mumbai Cricket Association following the landmark Supreme Court verdict of January 2. The decision of Vengsarkar to quit follows the resignation tendered by Sharad Pawar on December 17 as president of the MCA.
BCCI and its state associations including MCA had resisted implementing the majority of the Lodha Committee’s recommendations despite being told to do so by a Supreme Court order on July 18. Following which the Apex court directed the removal of the board president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke from office with immediate effect.
The court also ordered that other office bearers of the BCCI and state associations who did not meet the eligibility criteria set by the Lodha Committee shall “cease to hold office” immediately.
Pawar was ineligible to continue as he had crossed 70 years age while Vengsarkar held office with the MCA for more than nine years.
Vengsarkar served four year terms twice as the MCA vice-president from 2002 to 2010, before losing the presidential election to former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh in 2011. After a four-year break, he came back in the MCA as vice-president after winning elections.