Appoint another electoral officer in place of Chaudhari: CoA to Mumbai CA
The HinduThe Committee of Administrators has instructed Mumbai Cricket Association to appoint a new electoral officer in place of DN Chaudhari and conduct the state elections by stipulated deadline of September 28. The MCA had written to the CoA seeking directives after former state law Commission chairman Chaudhari refused to accept the electoral officer’s post citing that conduct of state unit election would be a “contempt of Supreme Court judgement“. Chaudhari However on Wednesday, CoA in an 11-point reply, pointed out that it “respectfully disagrees” with Chaudhari’s observations as it is “incorrectly” based on an earlier Supreme Court directive on July 5, 2018 which stated that elections couldn’t be held. While concluding, CoA has instructed MCA to “consider any other person” for electoral officer’s post and conduct the elections by September 28, in order to participate in BCCI AGM on October 22.