BCCI Chairman Jagmohan Dalmiya is no more. He passed away in Birla Research Institute , Kolkatta , today evening; where he was being treated, after suffering heart attack on 17th September 2015. He was not keeping well for the past few months. He was 75. Prme Minister Mr. Narendra Modi was the first to react on his sad demise, sending the following message, “ My thoughts are with the family of Shri Jagmohan Dalmiya in this hour of grief. May Shri Dalmiya’s soul rest in peace.”
Jagmohan Dalmiya
Mr. Dalmiya was the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Cricket Association of Bengal. He has previously served as President of the International Cricket Council. He was also a businessman from the city of Kolkata. He had returned to power, after 10 years, when he took over, from Mr. N.Srinivasan, who had to step down, over a controversy.
Earlier, Mr. Dalmiya joined the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) in 1979, and became its treasurer in 1983 and later, along with bureaucrat Inderjit Singh Bindra helped to win the right to stage the World Cup in South Asia in 1987 and 1996. He had been elected the President of BCCI on numerous occasions. In 1996 he received 23 votes to 13 for Australia’s Malcolm Gray in an election for Chairman of the International Cricket Council, but failed to attain the two-thirds majority necessary under the ICC Constitution. However, in 1997 he was unanimously elected President of the ICC (as the position had been renamed), which office he held for three years.