N Srinivasan's Daughter Rupa Gurunath Elected As TNCA President

Rupa has been elected unopposed at TNCA's 87th Annual General Meeting in Chennai on Thursday

Rupa Gurunath, daughter of Former BCCI chief N. Srinivasan, has been elected as the President of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA). She became the first woman to head a state unit of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Rupa has been elected unopposed at TNCA's 87th Annual General Meeting in Chennai on Thursday. She was the lone contender to file the nomination for the post. Earlier on September 20, the Supreme Court allowed the TNCA to hold elections to elect its office bearers. A bench comprising Justices S.A. Bobde and L. Nageswara Rao said that the election results will be subject to the final order. It had been alleged that the state cricket body and four other state cricket bodies had not complied with the BCCI constitution in its entirety. At this observation of the court, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) objected that the Tamil Nadu cricket body did not comply with the BCCI constitution. Senior advocate P.S. Narasimha, who is assisting the apex court as Amicus Curiae, contended that only four out of 38 cricket association had failed to adopt the new BCCI constitution. “We permit the applicant to hold the election, the result of the election will be as per legal remedies available to all parties and also the final order passed by this court,” the court reiterated.