The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) claimed that it had passed a unanimous resolution on the implementation of the Supreme Court order at its last Special General Meeting (SGM) held in Delhi on July 26 has raised questions among a few affiliated units, notably those which had announced their consent to implement the reforms. At the end of the SGM which reiterated its reservation against five major issues, the Board’s acting-secretary Amitabh Choudhary had emphatically described the resolution as ‘unanimous’.
Among BCCI’s affiliated units which had claimed they had enforced the Supreme Court directives were Vidarbha, Tripura and Hyderabad, even though the last-named maybe locked in a technical issue on the subject.
Tripura was absent at the SGM, while officials from Punjab and Orissa were disallowed since they were not represented by office-bearers as mandated by the Supreme Court.
“How come these units and Delhi (which was represented by a High Court-appointed Administrator) were party to a resolution which did not implement the Supreme Court ruling in toto?”, a veteran Board official asked. Vidarbha and Tripura were among the earliest to implement the reforms, while the DDCA, being administered by Justice (Retd.) Vikramajit Sen.
According to a Board official, Sen had expressed his dissent with respect to the incomplete implementation of the reforms. He has insisted that his dissent be recorded in the minutes of the meeting, proving the BCCI’s claim that the resolution was passed unanimously is inaccurate.