Chandigarh (Sports Bureau)

Rajinder Gupta was unanimously re-elected president of the Punjab Cricket Assocition at the 71st Annual General Body meeting held on Friday at Dhruv Pandove Conference Hall, I.S. Bindra Stadium, PCA Mohali.

The meeting started with members standing in silence for two minutes remembering Mr. Suresh Luthra, Mr. Megh Raj, Mr. Gokul Inderdev, Prof. R.D. Bansal, Mr. Gurbachan Singh Banga, Mr. Ramesh Chander Kohli, Mr. O.D. Sharma, Mr. Sham Lal, Mr. Jugal Kishore Garg players and members of PCA who demised during the intervening period of last AGM and present AGM.

The secretary Mr. R.P. Singla then presented the minutes of Annual General Meetings 15.9.2018 and 1.7.2019 which were passed by the House.

Mr. Puneet Bali, the duly elected Honorary Secretary who has been a first class cricketer himself while thanking the members for electing him to the post promised that he would make all out efforts to see that the Punjab State Cricket Teams under all age groups including the senior make a significant mark in the domestic circuit and he further wished that he would like to see 5-6 players of the state donning the India Colours in various age groups Under-19/ Under-23 and Senior. On his part he would strive to maintain hassle free work culture and relationship between various district cricket associations.

The Honorary Secretary then read out the salient features of the Annual Report for the year 2018-2019 which were later adopted by the House.

The Honorary Treasurer, Mr. Ajay Tyagi presented the audited Balance Sheet of the association as on 31.3.2019 and Income & Expenditure Statement for the year 2018-2019 which was duly adopted by the House.

The Election Process was initiated by Mr. Rajeev Sharma, IAS (Retd.) Former State Election Commissioner (Haryana), who declared that the since only one nomination had been received against each post and the same has been found valid as such there would be no need of voting. He then announced the names of Office Bearers and members of Apex Council elected unanimously.

Office Bearers:

President Mr. Rajinder Gupta, Vice President Mr. Rakesh Rathour, Honorary Secretary Mr. Puneet Bali, Honorary Jt. Secretary Mr. Surjit Rai, Honorary Treasurer Mr. Ram Parkash Singla.

Members of the Apex Council:

Representative of the District Cricket Association :
Mr. Daljit Singh Khela (Hoshiarpur District Cricket Association), Mr. Arun Kumar Sharma (Ludhiana District Cricket Association), Mr. Kartikeya Swaroop (Ferozepur District Cricket Association), Mr. Virinderjit Singh Billing (Patiala Cricket Association), Mr. Kamal Arora (Moga District Cricket Association), Mr. Ajay Tyagi (Mohali Cricket Association), Mr. Arvind Abrol (Kapurthala District Cricket Association).

Apex Members from the Life Members:

Mr. Rakesh Walia
Dr. Atul Sachdev
Mr. Preet Mohinder Singh Banga

Apex Member representative from the Clubs/Colleges/Institutions

Mr. Sanjiv Arora , Ludhiana Cricket Club.

After the unanimous election, the President Mr. Rajinder Gupta thanked the members for their cooperation and keeping up the old tradition of the association for maintaining unanimity during the elections. He wished and hoped that the PCA will strive to achieve its cherished goals.

Mr. Puneet Bali, the duly elected Honorary Secretary who has been a first class cricketer himself while thanking the members for electing him to the post promised that he would make all out efforts to see that the Punjab State Cricket Teams under all age groups including the senior make a significant mark in the domestic circuit and he further wished that he would like to see 5-6 players of the state donning the India Colours in various age groups Under-19/ Under-23 and Senior. On his part he would strive to maintain hassle free work culture and relationship between various district cricket associations.

The House unanimously endorsed the name of Mr. Rakesh Rathour Vice President of the Association to be PCA’s representative at the Annual Body Meeting of the BCCI to be held on 23rd October,2019 at Mumbai.The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the chair.