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BCB Polls

No panel of consensus

Sports Reporter
The election commission yesterday received 58 nomination papers for the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) election scheduled for November 12, quashing rumours ofa panel ofconsensus.
The actual number of candidates for the 23 directorial posts could not be ascertained though, as a few persons including former board officials Gazi Golam Dastagir and Khonodkar Jamil Uddin reportedly submitted more than one nomination paper as safety measures against cancellation for mistakes.
Noted missing candidates, who had sought nomination, are former BCB joint-secretary Rafiqul Islam
and organiser Adnan Rahman Dipon.
A total of 24 nominations were submitted for Category 1 (10 directors from districts and divisions), 28 for Category 2(12 directors from Dhaka clubs) and six for Category 3 (one director for players, education boards, women's wing etc.)
Former national cricket captains Roquibul Hassan. Gazi Ashraf Hossain Lipu and Faruque Ahmed will fight with Jamil and Abdul Quyyum Chowdhury in Category 3 while the competition would get intense in Category 2 where the group led by former general secretary Mahbubul An am is pitted against Ahmed Sajjadul Alam Bobby and his fellows.
Although Babu and Dipon decided not to compete, former general secretary Aminul Haque Moni. Aziz Al Kaiser Tito, Salman Ispahani, Obaid Nizam, Miaznur Rahman and Lutfar Rahman Badal will run for the Mahbubul Anam-led 'cricket development panel'.
"I was interested to have a united panel but unfortunately it did not materialise," Mahbub told reporters while submitting his nomination paper at the National Sports Council yesterday.
"The way the board of a Test nation is running at the moment is not proper. It needs a corporate structure and I believe the new constitution will take care of it. I
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will try to execute it if I am elected.
"The main target of the new executive committee would be to focus on organising the coming W'orld Cup in 2011 in Bangladesh," the former BCB general secretary added.
Bobby, an incumbent member of the BCB ad-hoc committee, whose allies in the united sports panel' are Enayct Hossain Siraj, Shafiqur Rahman Munna, Gazi Golam Dastagir, Jalal Yunus, Ali Ahsan Babu, GS Hassan Tarnim and others, said they had also tried for a panel of consensus without any success.
"We had sincerely made endeavours for a consensus panel and we had made to proactive initiatives from our side. However, the process seems to have been stonewalled," said Bobby.
"We are not to blame but we are prepared for any eventuality.
When asked about the opposition allegations that the ad-hoc committee has mishandled the ICLsituation, Bobby said that none of the other cricket boards were actually prepared for this and the BCB had handled this according to its capacity.
"During elections people talk. But I think all should not be taken that seriously."
Meanwhile, Afzalur Rahman Sinha, who was seemingly a candidate of the "development" panel, said he was still fora consensus.
"I have submitted my nomina tion but not decided on election. I am not going to compete for any panel. If there is no consensus, I'll go alone," said Sinha.
The nomination papers will be scrutinised today and the last date withdrawal is November 9.