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As the Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) goes to polls on June 27, the battle to wrest control over the Rs 100-crore body has become intense. The incumbent president Chirayu Amin's panel, supported by first class cricketers such as Nayan Mongia and Atul Bedade held a press meet on Thursday to show their strength.

In Amin's absence at the press meet, Sanjay Patel, the vice-president of BCA, said the event was held to bring to notice to all the development work done by the association under Amin's leadership, and to announce some initiatives that are being planned to improve the standard of cricket in Vadodara.

The press meet was also organised to counter the allegations made by the opposition group, led by Jaywant Lele, against the failure of the current management.

Sanjay Patel said, "We are not meeting here as BCA but as members of the cricketing fraternity and we don't want people to get misled by media reports."

A total of 43 candidates have filed nominations from Amin's panel while 23 are contesting from Lele's panel for various organisational positions in the association.

Jaywant Lele, who is leading the opposition against the Amin faction, said, "Though the pamphlets which are being circulated have not been prepared by us, each and every word in the pamphlet is true. They promised to build a stadium in six months; it's now six years and the stadium is still on the paper."

Lele also raised the issue of non-cricketers.

He said, "All the cricketers are gone. They are running the committees headed by non-cricketers. It is only during elections that they pay cricketers to support them. Nayan Mongia is not even the member of the association."

Last year, the panel led by Amin had swept the association polls with not a single member from the Lele group being able to win for any post in the organisation.