MFDA: Aaditya Thackeray and team win by huge margin; elected

Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray won by the highest number of votes in the Mumbai District Football Association elections for the executive council held yesterday.
All the other 26 candidates from the Thackeray-led panel were also successful, winning by a landslide victory. A total of 37 candidates had contested for the 27 executive council seats, a media release said today.
A total number of 159 representatives from football clubs, institutions and gymkhanas had cast their votes, out of which five were declared invalid.
Aaditya, son of Sena chief Uddhav, who was contesting the elections for first time, polled the highest number - 147 votes. The panel had already decided that Thackeray would be their presidential candidate, the release added.

In the previous term, Aaditya was co-opted as Chairman of the Association.
Sudhakar Rane garnered the second highest number of 138 votes. The other from the previous committee who were re-elected include, Digamber Kandarkar, Souter Vaz, John Almeida, Jacinto D'Silva, Udayan Benerjee, Shodhana Shetty, Vilas Rane, Salim Ansari, Suresh Banjan, Anthony Rodrigues, C K Shetty, Henry Picardo, Nasir Hussain, Anoop Dubey, Conrad Pereira, Darryl D'Souza and Krishna Pawle.
Nine new faces were elected to the executive council.
The executive council will now meet to select a honorary general secretary, a treasurer, 4 vice-presidents and 4 assistant secretaries.