Amitabh Choudhary Takes a Dig at Acting President CK Khanna Over His Silence on Lodha Reforms
Oct 23, 2017 at 3:06 PM
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Amitabh Choudhary had taken a dig at Acting President CK Khanna in a savage letter written to him on his complete silence on the subject of the Honourable Supreme Court mandated reforms. In his letter, Choudhary repeatedly said that Khanna’s point of interest has been to look out for passes for international and even IPL games.
“I congratulate you for these elegantly written and well-worded emails and the author’s command over the language that it demonstrates. However, one could not help recognizing that most of these related to the subjects of complimentary passes, appointments of support staff such as managers/physios of teams, appointments of observers and the like. Never once have I received any communication from you dealing with issues of substantive interest to the BCCI such as the manner to deal with various national tournaments, currently underway, in the face of unseasonal but persistent rains in the various parts of the country, issues relating to numerous tax litigations, negotiations with Kochi Tuskers, issues that Pakistan has tried to raise and so on,” Choudhary’s wrote in his letter to Khanna as per reports in India Today.
“Even in view of the standards set by you with regard to issues dearest to your heart, the email sent by you on 18th October was a departure from the past. It was a lesson to us on what the rules and regulations, traditions and conventions of the BCCI were, specifically with regard to the power and authority of the president. What surprised me most was the facility with which you invoked the provisions relating to the powers of the President BCCI because it made me wonder whether you even paused for a moment to contemplate the personages before you who occupied the exalted office. I wonder whether you contemplated the character, dignity and grace of personalities such titans as Grant Goven, Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, M. Chinnaswamy, Madhavrao Scindia, Jagmohan Dalmiya, Sharad Pawar and Shashank Manohar, all your illustrious predecessors, before you wanted to exercise similar authority or wondered whether they had ever needed to write communications such as yours in order to exercise such authority.”
In a mail written by Khanna on 18th October, he stated that all the board members have to work under the supervision a control of the Honourable Committee of Administrators who have been appointed by the Supreme Court to keep a constant monitoring of the administrators of the richest board in the world. He further added that everyone must follow any decision taken by the COA that is linked to administration without any concern.
“The Office Bearers of the BCCI are to function under the supervision and control of the President,” Khanna wrote in his letter.
Choudhary in his letter wrote that Khanna “wasn’t interested in taking the reforms forward which was the primary concern, instead of unhesitatingly and enthusiastically, but selectively, discharging your authority as president over trivial matters.”
“On the other hand, with the profusion of your emails, what intrigues me is the complete silence on your part that one observes when it comes to the subject of the Hon’ble Supreme Court mandated reforms. It is manifest that you neither have a view on this nor have interest in taking the reforms forward which ought to be the primary concern, instead of unhesitatingly and enthusiastically, but selectively, discharging your authority as president over trivial matters. It would be worthwhile to remind you that, like the undersigned, you too have undertaken before the highest court of the land about nine months ago to implement the reforms,” Choudhary wrote in his letter.