Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir back Arun Jaitley amid DDCA corruption storm
21 Dec 2015 7:12 AM IST
Jaitley was DDCA president for a period of 13 years and his tenure ended in 2013.
Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir
New Delhi: Caught in a corruption storm, finance minister and former Delhi & Districts Cricket Association president Arun Jaitley on Sunday found support from Delhi stalwarts Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, both of whom said that “things were much better when Jaitley headed the body”. Jaitley has been accused of turning a blind eye to financial irregularities during his tenure by the Aam Aadmi Party.
Said Sehwag on Twitter, “In my time with DDCA if I ever came to know of any ‘surprising’ selection of a player, all I needed to do was to inform @arunjaitley. “And @arunjaitley ji would immediately ensure correction and justice for the deserving players at #DDCA...Was a nightmare to speak to some others at DDCA but @arunjaitley ji was always available for players in case of any difficulty at any time,” he added.
The dashing batsman, who now plays for Haryana and retired from international cricket earlier this year, praised Jaitley’s role in helping players. Jaitley was DDCA president for a period of 13 years and his tenure ended in 2013.
Delhi captain Gambhir too threw his weight behind the minister saying “a lot of good things happened in DDCA when Jaitley was at the helm”. “An international kind of stadium was built, if you see what sort of stadium Kotla was and what it is now, all these things happened only when Jaitley was president,” Gambhir said here.
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