Rohan Jaitley re-elected DDCA president, Siddharth Verma is new secretary

Rohan Jaitley defeated senior advocate Vikas Singh by a massive margin to be re-elected as president of the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA). Siddharth Verma, son of former chief minister Sahib Singh Verma and a first-class player, claimed the secretary's post.

Siddharth defeated the corruption-tainted Vinod Tihara for the position. The counting concluded well after Thursday midnight.

Former player Gautam Gambhir's maternal uncle Pawan Ghulati will be the new treasurer of the DDCA.

Former BCCI acting president C.K. Khanna's wife Shashi Khanna retained her vice-president's post.

Rohan, son of former Union minister leader Arun Jaitley, got 1,658 votes for the president's post, while Singh could manage only 662.

It was the second time that Singh encountered a humiliating defeat for the president's post. Last time, Singh had lost to senior journalist Rajat Sharma.

However, the biggest upset was for Tihara. He lost by 618 votes to Verma, who fought as an independent candidate.

Verma, who got 1,322 votes to Tihara's 704, is a former Railways and Delhi cricketer.

The other tainted candidate Rakesh Bansal, younger brother of former BCCI vice-president Sneh Bansal, finished a distant third in the election for the secretary's post, polling in just 248 votes.

"It is a great victory for me personally. I would like to extend all my cooperation towards Rohan and work for the betterment of Delhi cricket. I have been a cricketer and working for their cause would be priority," said Verma, a former DDCA senior selector and BCCI sub-committee member.

It was learnt that Tihara and his supporters left the Feroz Shah Kotla premises once they knew that they wouldn't be able to surpass Verma.

For the treasurer's post, it was a walk in the park for Ghulati, who is an advocate himself and has been a close ally of the late Arun Jaitley.