The Shillong Cricket Association has raised serious objections to the conduct of the Meghalaya Cricket Association’s General Elections 2025, calling the process “fundamentally defective” and demanding an immediate restart of the entire electoral exercise. In a strongly worded statement issued on December 4, 2025, the SCA accused the MCA of deliberately suppressing voter identities, curtailing the campaign period, and violating constitutional timelines in a manner that undermines the integrity of the election scheduled for December 9.
The most significant charge relates to the timing of voter disclosure. Unlike the BCCI’s 2025 elections, where the draft electoral roll clearly identified all voting representatives before nominations opened, the MCA released only a list of member associations without naming their representatives. Candidates were forced to file nominations “blind”, without knowing their voter base, according to the SCA.
“This forced candidates to file nominations ‘blind’, without knowing their voter base or being able to assess winning chances,” the association stated, adding that representative names were only uploaded to the MCA website after the closure of nominations on December 3. The SCA highlighted further procedural irregularities. Whilst the BCCI framework provides two full days for objections to the draft electoral roll, the MCA allowed less than 24 hours—and did so when individual representatives’ names had not even been disclosed, “effectively nullifying the statutory right of objection”.