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The position was left vacant since the resignation of Narendra Modi; Shah was serving as vice-president of GCA
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Ahmedabad: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah was on Friday elected unopposed as the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) president, a post that had been left vacant after the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Modi resigned from the post before taking oath as Prime Minister.
“Amit Shah, who was vice-president of the GCA, was elected unopposed today (Friday) as the president of the association," another GCA vice-president and Rajya Sabha MP (member of Parliament) Parimal Nathwani said.
“The name of Shah was proposed by me and he was elected unopposed," Nathwani said.
“The post had fallen vacant as former president of GCA Narendra Modi resigned before he took oath as the Prime Minister of the country," he further said.
There are 32 members in the body of GCA.
Modi had taken over the reigns of GCA by replacing then Congress leader Narhari Amin on 15 September 2009. Amin later switched over to the BJP.
Shah, the former Gujarat minister of state for home and a close aide of Modi, was elected vice-president of GCA in the same year.
With Shah as the BJP in-charge of Uttar Pradesh during the recent Lok Sabha elections, the party won 73 of the 80 parliamentary seats.
Shah is currently vice-president of the BJP.
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