Apte takes a dig at new officials

New Delhi: The basic tenet of Justice RM Lodha panel’s constitutional reforms for Indian cricket has fallen flat after most of state units are being controlled by family members of disqualified office-bearers, feels former Maharashtra Cricket Association president member Abhay Apte. Former BCCI president N Srinivasan will continue to rule Tamil Nadu cricket through his daughter Rupa. Niranjan Shah's son Jaydev is Saurashtra unit's secretary, Anurag Thakur's brother Arun is HPCA supremo, tainted and jailed Ashirbad Behera's son Sanjay is new secretary of Odisha CA. Not to forget Baroda where Chirayu Amin's son Pranav is the new president and in Rajasthan Ashok Gehlot's son Keshav is taking over. “Yes, we have finally understood what precisely were the reforms suggested by Hon Justice Lodha Committee,” said Apte, who was a prominent member of BCCI legal committee. Apte, a lawyer by profession, who was also a member of the BCCI’s legal committee, sarcastically said that he has now “understood” what Lodha Panel’s basic tenet of “no concentration of power and no multiple terms” meant. “No concentration of power and no multiple terms. Yes, we have now understood that. It means that the same person in the family cannot keep the control of an association in his hands for ever. No way. He has to give it to the other member of his family . May be his son, daughter, brother etc etc,” Apte’s sarcasm was sharp.