After Pawar it was the turn of Farooq Abdullah, president of the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association to spend five minutes in the glare of the media. "There was a need for change and it has taken place in the best way," he said. "Just like in general elections where Prime Ministers come and go in the most democractic manner. Similarly here the results were declared and both sides have accepted it. Dalmiya has withdrawn all the objections [he had earlier raised]." Abdullah called this move of Dalmiya's "honourable" and praised Dalmiya for the work he had done.

As a parting shot he added,"Hopefully in the future there will be no need for elections to be conducted by someone else [from outside the BCCI]."