Comeback trail? Dalmiya set to file CAB nomination

The annual elections to the posts of president, two joint-secretaries and a treasurer is likely to be held on July 28. The Prasun Mukherjee-led administration is expected to announce the date formally following a routine Working Committee meeting of the CAB sometime at the end of July first week.

If Dalmiya announces that he will contest, then his face-off with former police commissioner Mukherjee for the CAB top job will once again bring back stinging memories of the summer of 2006, when Dalmiya had clinched a thriller against all odds.

After winning the 2006 polls, Dalmiya was forced out of cricket administration by the BCCI, and current CAB chief Mukherjee had, by consensus, taken over as the CAB president in January 2007.

8220;This time, Dalmiya is sure to contest,8221; says former CAB assistant secretary Biswarup Dey. 8220;He has already decided8230; there8217;s no going back,8221; adding that the numbers seemsto be stacked in his favour.

The reason for that is the fact that Mukherjee may not have the blessings of chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and the fact that he is no longer the city8217;s police chief could change the equations in Kolkata8217;s Maidans as well.