LUDHIANA: In a bizzare development in the elections of Ludhiana District Cricket Association (LDCA), on the day of filing nominations, the contestants avoided making their nomination public.
Several candidates refused to file nominations at ADC Amarjit Singh Bains’ office as TOI lensman was outside the office. (Bains is the the election officer for LDCA elections). The district administration did not upload the list of nominations on its website till 7.40pm on Wednesday despite the 3pm deadline. Repeated attempts by TOI to contact officials concerned regarding LDCA elections turned futile, as they failed to provide any information on nominations till the filing of this news.
Meanwhile, according to the information provided by sources in the cricketing fraternity of Ludhiana, about 19 nomination forms were received on Wednesday and for majority of the posts only single nomination has been received, which means the candidates for these posts will be elected unopposed. Sources also said nominations of several government officials have been received for several top most posts of LDCA and almost all of them will be elected unopposed. They said no one from the existing managing committee of LDCA has filed nominations for the elections.
In another development ahead of the November 8 elections of LDCA , some objections made by general secretary of association Vinod Chitkara were not entertained by observer as these were sent late. In his order on these objections, observer of elections, justice Permod Kohli, former chief justice of Sikkim high court passed an order on Tuesday which says, “After the disposal of objections, representations filed by objectors after hearing them, I received emails from Vinod Chitkara on November 2, late hours. The first email was at 9.55pm regarding expulsion of Rakesh Saini, the second was at 11.20pm regarding removal of R T Jain (press cutting) and the third one at 11.28pm regarding expulsion of Suresh Katyal. Another email has been received at 1.02pm on November 3 regarding payment to be made by LDCA for election expenses and fee of observer. As regards the first mails are concerned the objections having been disposed after hearing the objectors, no order can be passed on the basis of these mails having been received late at night after disposal of objections. In respect to the email received today, it is made clear that payment has to be deposited before the election officer in accoradance with the directions of the hon’ble high court.”