N. Srinivasan through him. “Swamy and Srinivasan have a 40-year-old friendship. I know Srinivasan for 10 years.... Who all are connected with Dr Swamy, I know them all,” Gunde claims proudly. Gunde came to prominence in April last year when he circulated a photo of then BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur with a Chandigarh ‘socialite’, an alleged ‘bookie’. Thakur retaliated by writing an explosive, open letter to former BCCI president N. Srinivasan, alleging that Gunde “operates on your behalf”. After the appointment of the ombudsman, Gunde filed several applications before him, alleging that current BCCI president Thakur and former chiefs Sharad Pawar and I.S. Bindra, apart from Sourav Ganguly, Lalit Modi, and Harbhajan Singh, were all in conflict-of-interest situations.