From best friend to enemy No 1: Tihara vs CK Khanna

Things keep getting worse at the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) and it seems relationships don’t last long and can change in a short period. Tuesday saw another piece of drama. A letter written by sports working committee convenor Mr Vinod Tihara attacks association and BCCI vice-president Mr CK Khanna and promises to save the DDCA employees from him.

Mr Tihara wrote in his letter that the Mr Khanna has been ruling DDCA for the last 33 years and has been manipulating and resorting to illegal means and acts to get himself elected.

Mr Tihara further mentions, “I have initiated the beginning of the end of the rule of CK Khanna and would not rest till he is taken to Tihar Jail with full band baaza”.

It is surprising how Mr Tihara has suddenly got inimical to Mr Khanna. Till last year he was his best friend. In fact, when former cricketer Mr Kirti Azad raised the issue during one of the elections, he pointed out the nexus between Mr Tihara and Mr Khanna. In fact, it is common knowledge at DDCA Mr Khanna has helped Mr Tihara win elections over a number of years. For those frequenting the DDCA, Mr Tihara was often seen in his room.

So how come the two have fallen out and Mr Tihara become the “Jaani Dushman’ of Mr Khanna. From “Ye dosti hum nahi chhodenge”, the song has become “Main tera dushman, dushman too mera...”.

The crux of the issue my friends are the forthcoming sports working committee elections as you must have known while reading this blog. Mr Tihara has become the key enemy of Mr Khanna as it is known that the latter is not backing him this time.

To give you an idea of the timeline of the events that has led to this enmity:

On June 13 a resolution was passed to set the procedure for elections in motion. DDCA director Mr Ajay Sharma proposed it whereas Mr Ashok Sharma, another director seconded it.

On June 17, a meeting was called where former test cricketer Mr Chetan Chauhan, Mr CK Khanna and DDCA treasurer Mr Ravindra Manchanda were present. Mr Sunil Dev, the fourth key person, although asked to come didn’t attend the meeting. Mr Dev is a key ally of Mr Tihara. At the meeting, it was decided that KS Mohi, a retired judge would be appointed the election officer.

On June 18, a letter was despatched to Mr Mohi and he showed his receiving on the very same day.

On June 19, Mr Tihara approached the Tees Hazari Courts contesting that the resolutions are all illegal as the directors’ term had already expired on November 30, 2014.

On June 22, the court asked to seal the register where it was mentioned that Mr Mohi would be the election officer and proposals for elections were set up. Mr Tihara had claimed that the appointments were done on back-date, that is after he had filed a case on June 19.

However, Mr Ashok Sharma has claimed that the case filed on June 19 already has the contentious papers. “If the appointment paper and the election resolution is already there with the June 19 case, how is it possible that changes could be made on back-date. They are bluffing and fooling everyone. They just want to hang this around for the next year or year and a half and stay in charge of sports committee.”

The next date of hearing is June 29. Surely sparks will fly till then. The latest being an allegation of Mr Tihara that Mr Khanna and his friends had arranged goons to beat up two members of his sports working committee – Mr Anil Mishra and Mr Padam Chauhan. Delhi Cricket will talk about it in the next post as much drama is likely to happen on Wednesday evening over these allegations.