Former Indian cricketer Venkatesh Prasad has become the new president of Karnataka State Cricket Association. He has achieved the post of President by defeating Brijesh Patel supported panel member KN Shant Kumar. Santosh Menon was appointed secretary and Sujit Somasundar was appointed vice president from Venkatesh Prasad’s panel.

Venkatesh Prasad’s team had made it clear that they would work actively so that cricket could return to the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. This is the same ground outside which there was a stampede after RCB won the title in IPL 2025. Since then no competitive match has been played at this ground in Bengaluru.

Sujit Somasundar, who was on Venkatesh Prasad’s panel, had recently left the post of Head of Cricket Education at BCCI’s Center of Excellence. He will now hold the post of Vice President of KSCA. Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and KSCA life member DK Shivakumar also reached Chinnaswamy Stadium during the day and also cast his vote.

Former Indian Cricketer Venkatesh Prasad wins the election for the post of President of the Karnataka State Cricket Association. Santosh Menon and Sujith Somasunder elected secretary and Vice-President respectively.

— ANI (@ANI) December 7, 2025

He told the media, “We will not allow IPL matches to be moved out of Chinnaswamy Stadium. It is a matter of pride for Bengaluru and Karnataka. We will work tirelessly to ensure that IPL matches are held here. I am a fan of cricket. We would like to ensure that such incidents do not happen here again and the dignity of the ground is maintained. We are preparing to build another stadium.”

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Ksca officials resigned: There has been a new twist in a stampede case outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. 2 big officials of Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) have resigned. Karnataka Cricket Association Secretary A Shankar and Treasurer ES Jairam submitted their resignations on June 4 after a stampede. Please tell that 11 people lost their lives in this sad incident. On June 3, there was a crowd of millions outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium the next day to see the RCB team, who became the IPL champion.

While releasing a press release, A Shankar and ES Jairam said that the entire fault in this unfortunate incident is not his, but taking moral responsibility, Shankar and Jairam have decided to resign from the post of Secretary and Treasurer respectively. Both of them resigned to the KSCA president on 6 June.

Karnataka State Cricket Association President Raghuram Bhatt, Secretary Shankar and Treasurer presented arguments in the Karnataka High Court that it was not the responsibility of Gate Management and Crowd Management, KSCA and he had taken permission to get the RCB team done on the Victory Celebration Vidhan Saudha. The program on Vidhan Sudha was completed without any problem, but after the invitation shared by RCB on social media, millions of people came outside the Chinnaswamy Maidan. Let us know that the Bengaluru franchise later deleted that post.

In this case, an FIR was registered against four organizations including RCB and Karnataka Cricket Association. On Friday, a session court in Bangalore sent 4 people, including a senior RCB officer, to police custody.

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