da aviator aposta： A timeline of Jagmohan Dalmiya’s dramatic career since September 2004
Sidharth Monga16-Dec-2006
Jagmohan Dalmiya’s expulsion from the BCCI is the latest twist in a dramatic career © AFP
September 29, 2004The BCCI elections. Dalmiya is on a cliff-edge. He’s held every post there is to hold, and names his man Ranbir Mahendra as a candidate for the president’s post. Neither Dalmiya nor Mahendra’s opponent Sharad Pawar has ever lost an election. Dalmiya survives, but only just – and only by virtue of his casting vote as incumbent president. The first signs of his mortality.June 2005Appoints major threat Inderjit Singh Bindra to the marketing committee in a move designed to appease opponentsSeptember 2005The BCCI elections, yet again. Dalmiya can see the winds of change blowing. He tries his best to get the election postponed; Mahendra declares the AGM adjourned sine die. Amid all this, the infamous Chappell e-mail is “leaked”November 2005The AGM finally happens, with an independent observer overseeing the election. Pawar wins by a landslide. End of Dalmiya’s reignDecember 2005Resigns as president of the Asian Cricket Council and the Afro-Asian Cricket CouncilFebruary 2006Pawar appoints a committee to investigate alleged financial irregularities in the PILCOM [Pakistan-India-Lanka Committee] account. PILCOM was formed when the three countries hosted the 1996 World CupMarch 2006BCCI files FIR against DalmiyaApril 2006Bombay High Court grants bail to Dalmiya but BCCI`s Working Committee suspends Dalmiya from participating in any affairs of the board on charges of misappropriationJune 2006BCCI decides to withhold payments and subsidies to the CAB in the light of allegations of misappropriation of funds against DalmiyaJuly 2006Survives at the Cricket Association of Bengal elections, with West Bengal chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya famously backing his opponent, Kolkata police chief Prasun MukherjeeOctober 2006Dalmiya abstains from the BCCI’s three-member disciplinary committee while questioning the neutrality of its chairman and board president Sharad Pawar and also claiming that the validity of the adjudication process against him had expiredDecember 16, 2006BCCI expels Jagmohan Dalmiya for embezzlement of funds