The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a statement that Thakur, 41, was the “only” nomination and would be announced as its new chief following a meeting in Mumbai Sunday.
“He will be officially declared elected as the President of the BCCI for the remaining term 2014- 17, tomorrow at the Special General Meeting,” said the statement.
Thakur, who resigned as the secretary of the board, got the signatures of all six ‘East Zone’ units in his nomination form as he completed the formalities in the presence of former India captain and Bengal association president Sourav Ganguly in Mumbai.
According to the BCCI constitution, the president is elected by a rotational system where each of the five zones is given a chance to put their candidate forward.
Thakur, who is a member of parliament for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and a close ally of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, succeeds Shashank Manohar who stepped down earlier this month to become the first independent chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Meanwhile, Manohar revealed that he quit the BCCI post as he could not implement the Supreme Court-mandated recommendations regarding the restructuring of the board.
“I did whatever was good and in the interest of the board even before the Lodha committee recommendations were given. I’m not a person who is capable of implementing them,” Manohar said in Mumbai.
“There may be more capable people in this board than me who can implement these. I can’t see an organisation being destroyed which has been built by so many persons,” he said.
“When I took over this board, the Lodha committee work was in progress. Even before the recommendations came many of them had already been implemented.
Seventy five per cent of the recommendations of the committee are very good. But I have reservations about 4-5 recommendations which are not in the interest of the board.”
