N Srinivasan has called for a meeting of all the discarded officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India and its affiliated state officials on Sunday in New Delhi, reported The Indian Express.
The meeting will be attended by all the cricket officials who were discarded following the implementation of the nine-year tenure cap, which was one of the recommendations of the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Lodha committee. Lawyer Kapil Sibal, who represents the BCCI, is also scheduled to attend meeting.
The board’s Committee of Administrators, which was also appointed by the Supreme Court, had earlier specified that office-bearers would get to be in power only for a total of nine years, whether they were with the BCCI or its state bodies.
The report added that it was the confusion that emanated from the previous Supreme Court directive, which stated that those who completed nine years as a state administrator can hold BCCI posts, and vice versa, that called for the meeting. “So how can [the] COA change [the] SC order?” an official who will attend the meeting was quoted as saying. “We will approach Supreme Court on this regard once again if needed.”
Among the BCCI officials who are expected to attend the meeting are Rajeev Shukla, Amitabh Choudhary, Anirudh Chaudhary and Brijesh Patel.
