The BCCI Panel Set To Meet On July 7 To Discuss the Final Set Of Difficulties

Jul 2, 2017 at 12:24 PM

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The BCCI Panel Set To Meet On July 7 To Discuss the Final Set Of Difficulties

The Story

The recently conducted Special General Meeting saw BCCI set up a committee comprising of its own members. The motive behind this move was to identify the “areas of difficulty” in the implementation of the Lodha reforms.

The committee, led by Rajiv Shukla, will provide suggestions for quick implementations of the guidelines to the court-appointed panel Committee of Administrators (CAC).

According to its convener, the BCCI’s acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary with the seven-member panel has achieved a “huge amount of unanimity.” The panel includes bigwigs like vice-president TC Mathew, treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry, Nabha Bhattacharjee, the secretary of the Meghalaya Cricket Association, Jay Shah, the joint-secretary of the Gujarat Cricket Association

Reports To Be Submitted Before July 14

The committee has now announced that they are close to narrowing down on a set of difficulties.

The panel will be meeting again on July 7 and will finalize a report consisting of three to four difficulties which will be presented at the Special General Meeting (SGM) which is expected to be conducted before July 14.

Committee of Administrators, the court-appointed panel, will then look into the details of the report.

“I can tell you that there was a huge amount of unanimity among all members including [Cricket Association of Bengal president] Sourav Ganguly, who was present through Skype,” Choudhary said on Saturday.

Chaudhary added that “six or seven” points have been unanimously agreed by the member and will be reduced to final “three or four”.

“I could well do that [reveal the six or seven areas of difficulty], but I think all of you know it,” Choudhary said. “We are trying to reduce the gamut of difficulties to three or four, and in that exercise, we have succeeded very substantially today. The small bits which are left we will finish them [on July 7].

The main bone of contention regarding the implementation has been well-known so far, as the BCCI has plainly refused to abide by four regulations which the Lodha panel suggested – The age cap of 70 years for office bearers, the tenure cap of nine years with cooling-off periods in between, the one-state-one-vote policy, and the trimming down of the number of selectors from five to three.

Choudhary was confident the BCCI would be able to conduct a Special General Meeting (SGM) before July 14.

“I’m sure you’ll have a copy of that one-page document which states clearly, delineates, that the honorable Supreme Court of India’s next date on the subject is the 14th of July,” Choudhary said. “It also says that we have to dispose of this matter expeditiously, and it’s a matter of urgent nature. We exhausted the dictionary, so to say, and we are acting upon it.”

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