New By Uttarakhand Sandesh 2021-02-16

Uttarakhand CM orders probe into Jaffer row

DEHRADUN: Amid the continuing controversy across the resignation of Wasim Jaffer from the submit of head coach of Uttarakhand senior males’s cricket group over allegations of spiritual bias in number of gamers and bringing a maulvi within the dressing room when the group was functioning in a biobubble, CM Trivendra Singh Rawat on Monday ordered a probe into the matter. The transfer comes a day after a delegation of Cricket Affiliation of Uttarakhand (CAU) officers met the CM. Jaffer resigned from the submit of head coach of the state cricket group on February 8 citing “a lot interference and bias on the a part of selectors and CAU secretary Mahim Verma within the choice issues for non-deserving gamers”. After the matter got here into the limelight, cricketers like Anil Kumble, Irfan Pathan and Mohd Kaif backed Jaffer, a former India participant with a towering home document. ‘Time interval for the probe not but determined’ The CAU delegation comprised the affiliation’s vice-president Sanjay Rawat, treasurer Prithvi Singh Negi, joint secretary Avnish Verma and member Rohit Chauhan. After the assembly on Sunday, CM Rawat had advised TOI, “It was a routine assembly through which the Jaffer case had additionally come up. If we obtain any criticism, the matter might be probed.” Media advisor to CM, Darshan Singh Rawat, advised TOI, “The CAU delegation which met the CM had an in depth dialogue with him over the difficulty following which the CM has requested for a probe to be achieved. Nevertheless, the probe officer and the time interval through which the investigation is to be accomplished has not but been determined.” Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi in a current tweet wrote, “In the previous few years, hate has been normalised a lot that even our beloved sport cricket has been marred by it. India belongs to all of us. Don’t allow them to dismantle our unity.” In an e-mail, Jaffer had expressed his standpoint by saying, “I really feel actually unhappy for the gamers (within the group) as I genuinely suppose that they’ve lot of potential and might study a lot from me however are denied with this chance due to a lot interference & biasness of selectors and secretary within the choice issues for non-deserving gamers.” In the meantime, CAU secretary Mahim Verma advised TOI that there are “no spiritual overtones within the matter of the resignation of Wasim Jaffer from the submit of the pinnacle coach.” “His resignation got here purely because of cricketing variations over selection of gamers within the squad,” Verma stated.