The difference spat between BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary and the Supreme Court appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) on the matter of the BCCI Special General Meeting convened on June 22 in New Delhi continues.
The CoA has opposed the SGM citing the directions it served on BCCI office-bearers on March 15.
On Friday, Choudhary told the CoA, “the directions and instructions issued by the CoA on the convening of the BCCI SGM has the effect of extinguishing all democratic processes... We have been advised that holding an SGM, discussing and deciding on matters and communicating the same to the CoA in no way transgresses any order of the Supreme Court.”
Choudhary, who has convened the SGM requisitioned by BCCI members to consider 10 important matters, has gone to the extent of telling the CoA that it had little to show in the the last year-and-a-half on the matter of Supreme Court mandated reforms.
“It is important to point out that the Committee has adopted an adversarial approach to both the implementation of the reforms and to the supervision of the administration of the BCCI.
“In fact, the clear thought of the Committee, as is also manifest from the spate of directions issued by it, is that neither the office-bearers, nor the State associations, that actually comprise the BCCI, are in existence.”
Choudhary has said in a long rejoinder to the CoA that “discussion and decision-making on policy matters having huge ramifications and financial implications on the BCCI ought to be undertaken by the general body at the SGM and not by two individuals.”
Choudhary has requested the CoA to “withdraw orders which might come in the way of the constitutional functioning of the BCCI and may hamper the decision-making of the general body.”