Anurag Thakur Unanimously Elected as New BCCI President at the SGM Sunday May 22,2016

Anurag Thakur was unanimously elected as BCCI President in the Board's Special General Meeting (SGM) on Sunday May 22,2016

Anurag Thakur will be replacing Shashank Manohar who stepped down from the position to take up the ICC chief's job.

Anurag Thakur, who was serving as the Secretary of the Board, was proposed for the job by the East Zone, whose turn it was to project the candidate for the coveted post.

Anurag Thakur, also a BJP MP in Lok Sabha, had the backing of all the east zone members including Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Tripura and the National Cricket Club

Anurag Thakur, who resigned as the Secretary of the Board, got the signatures of all six east zone units in his BCCI presidential nomination form on Saturday, paving the way for his unanimous choice as the 34th President of the august cricket body.

Anurag Thakur(41)is the youngest BCCI president ever. He incidentally, will go into the books as the first first-class cricketer to turn BCCI president after Raj Singh Dungarpur lay down office in 1998-99.

Note

Shashank Manohar's exit from the top post barely seven months into his tenure has necessitated the election of the new chief of the world's richest and most powerful cricket body

Shashank Manohar was elected as ICC's first independent chairman on May 12,2016

Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was the consensus candidate after Srinivasan's exit, died in office last year and Manohar took over in October, 2015.