Former president of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA)  Ashish Shelar currently the Mumbai chief of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), was on Friday unanimously appointed as MCA’s representative for the BCCI Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held on October 18 at the Board’s headquarters in Churchgate. Shelar’s candidature was proposed by Apex Council member Ajinkya Naik and seconded by Kaushik Godbole. 

Later in the Emergent Apex Council meeting, MCA president Dr Vijay Patil too proposed Shelar’s name for the BCCI meeting.