Chatur Bahadur Chand has been unanimously elected as the Chairman of Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) on Tuesday.

Chand, a Vice Chairman with the cricket governing body, was elected chairman by the fourth annual general assembly of CAN which concluded at Hotel Rajgharana in Kamaladi at 5 am Tuesday morning. The assembly has been deemed invalid from the National Sports Council and is also boycotted by outgoing Chairman Tanka Aangbuhang.

Binod Mainali was elected as the First Vice Chairman while Shailesh Chaudhary and Diwakar Ghale were elected as Vice Chairman. They secured 53 and 37 votes respectively. With 33 votes, the third candidate Naresh Rana was defeated. Ashok Nath Pyakurel won the election for General Secretary’s post.

Mina Shrestha (Biratnagar), Daud Ansari (Birgunj), Thakur Pratap Thapa (Kathmandu), Kiran Shamsher Rana (Kathmandu), Raj Babu Shrestha (Kathmandu), Prashant Bikram Malla (Bhairahawa), Sanjay Singh (Nepalgunj), Jayanti Bhatta (Baitadi), Roshan Singh (Janakpur), Rishiram Gautam (Pokhara), Ratan Kathayat and Hari Regmi (Dhangadi) were unanimously elected as members.

Earlier on Monday, there was an altercation during the assembly when a group led by vice-presidents Keshav Ghimire and Sunil Amatya from Aangbuhang’s faction demanded the assembly be stopped.  Ghimire and Amatya had to be controlled by security personnel after both got involved in an altercation with Chand who was addressing the district members from the podium.