Vaibhav Gehlot announced his resignation from his post as president of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) on Monday, accusing the current government of acting against him with a “malicious intent”.
Gehlot took to X (formerly Twitter) and released a statement announcing his resignation.
Gehlot, who is also a Congress leader, said he started working as the president of RCA in 2019. He pointed out the poor condition of RCA under the previous Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government before CP Joshi took over as the president in 2017. Gehlot said that he took over the president in 2019 and made efforts to uplift cricket in the state.
“In the year 2019, I started working as the President of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA). Everyone knows what was the situation in RCA during the tenure of the previous BJP government before Shri CP Joshi became the RCA President in 2017 and what was the plight of cricket in Rajasthan. BCCI even banned RCA due to which neither cricket matches could be
International and IPL cricket matches were not held in Rajasthan for a long time. I tried at the BCCI level and took the approval from BCCI to organise international and then IPL matches in Jaipur and both were successfully organised here.
So that the talents of Rajasthan can get more opportunities to play, Rajasthan Premier League (RPL) was organised, whose matches were successfully organised in Jaipur and Jodhpur. It was my endeavour that cricket in Rajasthan should not be limited only to Jaipur city, hence, in coordination with the Rajasthan Government, the renovation work of Barkatullah Khan Stadium in Jodhpur was done and RPL matches were organised there.
The work of building a cricket stadium for international matches started in Udaipur. The possibility of building cricket stadiums in other cities also started to be explored,” he added.