Vinod Rai panel wants AGM, fresh office-bearers in BCCI
MUMBAI: In its seventh status report filed by BCCI’s Committee of Administrators in the Supreme Court, Vinod Rai and Diana Eduljee have recommended the holding of the Annual General Meeting and electing fresh office-bearers. If the Supreme Court agrees, it will be curtains for the current interim office-bearers, president CK Khanna, secretary Amitabh Choudhary and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary.
The AGM will also see the formation of a new IPL Governing Council, which will end the tenure of Rajeev Shukla as IPL chairman. Quoting the constitution of the BCCI, the status report states that the AGM shall be held every year, not later than Sept 30. Among the main business will be the election of office-bearers and vice-presidents, election of working committee, standing committee and other sub-committees, which will seal the fate of the current set of office-bearers.
The last AGM was held in September 2016. The CoA had been waiting for the implementation of the new BCCI constitution before holding fresh elections but has now decided to go ahead with the AGM. The report specifies that the “term of the senior-most vicepresident and the joint secretary have expired, they cannot continue to perform the duties of the president (CK Khanna) and secretary (Amitabh Choudhary).”
According to court’s directions, the AGM will have to be in keeping with the Justice Lodha panel recommendations. The CoA submitted that even though the new BCCI constitution is yet to be formally adopted, elections can be conducted.
Their argument is that the current office-bearers need to be replaced for being guilty of noncompliance. “These interim directions are required so that the persons who are consciously guilty of non-compliance are disabled from benefitting from their conscious non-compliance, and in particular, do not get the benefit of an extended tenure because of such non-compliance.”