With Maratha strongman Sharad Pawar offering unconditional support to the BJP government in Maharashtra, the new-found BJP-NCP bonhomie may extend to ending the N Srinivasan regime in the BCCI, a highly-placed source said.

There is a strong possibility of Cricket Association of Bengal president Jagmohan Dalmiya and Sharad Pawar, president of the Mumbai Cricket Association, joining hands to ensure that Srinivasan is booted out of the BCCI. In this regard, Cricket Association of Bihar secretary Aditya Verma, who is a petitioner in the case against Srinivasan, met Pawar in Mumbai on Friday and urged him to "show the way out of the mess in cricket".

"This is the right time for Pawar sahab to take us out of this mess and make the BCCI corruption-free. He is the only one who can bring this rule of corruption to an end. With Dalmiya promising to join hands, the numbers are clearly on our side," the source said.

What is of interest is that BJP president Amit Shah is the president of the Gujarat Cricket Association and if he backs the move, other BJP leaders like Anurag Thakur of Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association and Arun Jaitley of Delhi and District Cricket Association, both part of the Srinivasan camp, might be forced to shift sides.

"In the current scenario, BJP's own members in the BCCI and three government-controlled three votes — Railways, Services and All India Universities — are enough to tilt the balance of power," explained a senior West Zone BCCI official.

Going by the numbers game, the anti-Srinivasan camp may not find it difficult to gain the majority if Pawar, Dalmiya and the BJP join hands. In this scenario, the Srinivasan camp may be able to muster only seven votes out of 30. On the other hand, the Pawar-Dalmiya-BJP camp will gain 18 votes. There are five fence-sitters. The AGM is scheduled for November.

Of the 30 BCCI members, the Pawar camp has complete support of five Central Zone members with Rajasthan, Vidarbha, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Railways on its side. He enjoys absolute support in the West Zone too, with Mumbai, Maharashtra, Saurashtra, Gujarat, Baroda. It remains to be seen which way the Cricket Club of India goes.

The Srinivasan camp has a clear advantage in South Zone where four state associations — Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Hyderabad and Kerala — are on his side. While Goa (BJP government) and Andhra (BJP MP Gokaraju Ganga Raju is president) are certain to back Pawar.

Going by past record, only government-controlled services, universities and Farooq Abdullah's Jammu & Kashmir are likely to vote for Pawar from the North.

But in the emerging scenario, Delhi strongman Jaitley's proxy, Sneh Bansal, and Himachal Pradesh's Anurag Thakur will be forced to toe the party line. For the record, they are Srinivasan loyalists. Dalmiya has the CAB and NCC votes in his pocket. If Srinivasan can count on Orissa and Assam, then a last-minute shift of Jharkhand and Tripura cannot be ruled out in favour of the Pawar camp.

Jharkhand's Amitabh Chaudhary, another Srinivasan supporter, is seeking a BJP ticket for the upcoming Assembly polls. So it is unlikely that he will go against the party's diktat.