On Monday, the Supreme Court of India gave a remarkable verdict to cleanse the haze over the Indian cricket. The Indian Apex Court asked the Board of Control for Cricket India (BCCI) that it has to implement the Lodha Committee recommendations within six months.
However, former BCCI administrator PR Man Singh said six months is too short to implement the recommendations to bring necessary changes.
“In all fairness, it’s too short a period. The BCCI officials have to get a hard copy of the verdict and then they will have to sit and discuss the changes that have to be made to their Constitution. That will take some time -maybe a month or so. After which, a Special General Body has to be called for -a notice of 21 days is needed for it. After the amendments are made in the meeting, another meeting will have to be called a month or so later to ratify the same.
“Once it is done, the same has to be sent to the Registrar of Societies and the amendments have to be incorporated in the Constitution. Only after this process, can the changes come into effect,”
Man Singh, who was the secretary of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) said here on Tuesday ?
“Any ‘naughty’ association can call for their Special GM towards the end of the six-month period and thereby ensure that the process gets delayed,” he added.
Man Singh said there a lot of issues which have double meaning so they need clarifications from the Supreme Court.
“Will the recommendations come into effect retrospectively or not? That’s a big question which needs to be answered. Similarly , there are a few contentious issues and those need to be sorted out at the earliest so that the verdict is fully honoured,” said India 1983 World Cup victorious team manager Man Singh.
Man Singh cited the example of the Karnataka said, “The KSCA have elections in the first week of August. What are they supposed to do? Do they go ahead with the elections or wait till the changes are made to their Constitution? Such tricky issues will surface in the next few months and answers have to be ready for that.
“Hence, I feel the Court should appoint a small body -a three-member panel etc -which will look into all such contentious issues and come up with ready solutions. One cannot keep on knocking on the doors of the SC for every small clarification. It will only lead to delays and dilute the purpose of this verdict,” he added.
The 2013 spot-fixing controversy and subsequent conflict of interest allegations against the then BCCI president N. Srinivasan led the Supreme Court’s bench of two justice Ibrahim Kalifulla and TS Thakur to appoint justice Lodha committee who came up with historic recommendations to change the governing system of Indian cricket.
Supreme Court almost endorsed most of the recommendations, leaving the betting and CAG to parliament’s domain while the subject of broadcasting rights will be under the BCCI as the apex court doesn’t want BCCI to face any financial issues.