Attorney General of India, Mukul Rohatgi, on Friday asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to downgrade Railways, Services and the Universities from full members to associate members of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, thereby not allowing them voting rights.

AG Rohatgi further urged the Supreme Court to recall and revisit its judgement implementing the Justice Lodha panel recommendations as larger questions have not been answered. According to a report by News 18, Rohatgi objected to the clause that bars appointment of government servants and ministers as members of the Indian cricket board.

The apex court bench agreed to consider the plea, reported PTI.

The Attorney General, who was representing the three cricket associations – Railways, Services, and Universities – said: “Although the BCCI is a private body, but it partially affects the government. Urging the court to reconsider its decision.”

The court, meanwhile, modified its earlier order by which a person having a cumulative tenure of nine years in any state association and BCCI would stand disqualified from holding any position in the apex cricket body. A person who has completed nine years in a state association can now carry on as an administrator in the BCCI subject to the cooling of periods.

Meanwhile, amicus curiae Gopal Subramaniam submitted nine names for the post of BCCI administrators in a sealed cover. The bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra however, deferred naming the final list of administrators to January 24.

A committee of administrators is expected to be chosen from the list submitted by Subramaniam and senior counsel Anil B Divan, who were given the task to recommend names for the posts by the court.

The new administrators will run the game till BCCI and the state units adopt a new constitution, which incorporates all the caveats of the Lodha reforms and a new set of office-bearers are implemented in accordance to the SC verdict dated January 2.

The court had then removed Anurag Thakur and Ajay Shirke from the post of BCCI president and secretary respectively and asked for new administrators to be appointed to run the sports body in their stead.