Sourav Ganguly has no longer resigned as the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Secretary Jay Shah told ANI. There have been such speculations on social media structures that the former India skipper, having had a successful run at the BCCI, has resigned.
The speculations started after Dada, as Sourav Ganguly is fondly regarded, had shared a publish on the completion of thirty years of his cricket career. Ganguly took to Twitter on June 1 and shared a post on “starting something today”, which he feels, will “probably help a lot of people”.
“Today, I am planning to start something that I feel will probably assist a lot of people,” Ganguly wrote on Twitter.
“2022 marks the 30th, 12 months since the beginning of my journey with cricket in 1992. Since then, cricket has given me a lot. Most importantly, it has given me the support of all of you. I prefer to thank each and every single man or woman who has been a section of the journey, supported me and helped me attain the place I am today,” Ganguly tweeted.
On social media, quickly after the post, there have been speculations that Sourav Ganguly was becoming a member of politics, and he had decided to quit for that reason. This is not the first time that it is speculated that Ganguly will mission into politics. Before the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election in 2021, it was once widely speculated that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will current Ganguly as its chief ministerial candidate against Mamata Banerjee. However, it never happened. Ganguly stayed away from politics.
Now, Jay Shah’s clarification to ANI has similarly cleared all the confusion and hypothesis about Ganguly’s “resignation” from the BCCI post. On the other hand, it is nonetheless no longer clear what Dada absolutely spoke about in his cryptic tweet.