Narendra Modi is Gujarat Cricket Association president

MUMBAI: Narendra Modi was formally elected as the new Gujarat Cricket Association president.

The Gujarat chief minister has thus ended the 16-year rule of Congress and former deputy CM Narhari Amin‘s dominance of cricket administration in the state.

The Gujarat CM joins politicians who have ventured into crickey like ICC VP Sharad Pawar

BJP‘s Arun Jaitley heads Delhi cricket and the party’s MP Anurag Thakur is in charge in Himachal.

The Congress‘s Jyotiraditya Scindia heads the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association while party MP Rajiv Shukla is BCCI VP.