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BCCI's new president Jagmohan Dalmiya reaches Kolkata

India Blooms News Service | | 02 Mar 2015, 11:03 pm
Kolkata, Mar 2 (IBNS): Veteran official Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was elected as the President of Indian cricket's governing body, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), reached Kolkata on Monday.

With tears in his eyes, Dalmiya told reporters: "The people have shown me there love and affection and this is something I will love forever."

"I am pro-cricket," Dalmiya said.

Dalmiya returned as the chief of the board after a decade at its 85th annual general meeting in Chennai on Monday.

Dalmiya, the current president of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), had earlier emerged as consensus candidate from N. Srinivasan’s camp.
 

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