The CoA scrutinised the BCCI CEO’s report about the Lodha Committee’s recommendations, and submitted its observations to the Supreme Court © AFP
The Committee of Administrators (CoA) submitted its first status report to the Supreme Court on Saturday, saying the BCCI and the state associations have not yet complied with even one of the steps that had to be implemented by the deadlines set by the Lodha Committee.
The CoA, appointed by the Supreme Court, recorded in its report the two sets of timelines set by the Lodha Committee, the status for the same submitted by BCCI CEO Rahul Johri on February 10, and its own observations for the implementation of recommendations, saying “step not complied with” for each of the 15 steps that were set for the board. The Supreme Court will hear the matter for these on Monday. The state associations were asked to hold fresh elections and only Vidarbha, Tripura and Hyderabad had done so. Among the status of other recommendations, Johri stated the appointment of ethics officer and ombudsman could happen only once fresh elected members from the state associations would take part in a BCCI meeting to form an apex council.
The first set of timelines ranged from September 30, 2016 to October 15, 2016 and included recommendations, among others, on the BCCI formally adopting a new memorandum and rules and regulations, the state associations to amend their constitutions, amendments to certain IPL code of conducts, and the one-state-one-vote policy to be followed by Gujarat and Maharashtra.
In the status for these submitted by Johri, the CEO said the new memorandum and rules and regulations were “not implemented” because the “BCCI members in their meeting need to accept this with 3/4th majority as per present rules”. Even though the state associations, barring Tripura and Vidarbha, had not amended their constitutions, Johri stated certain state associations had declared they would implement the same and had communicated directly with the Lodha Committee. For certain IPL rules to be amended – that included code of conduct for players and team officials, anti-corruption code, anti-racism code, and the operational rules – the CEO stated the amendments were agreed to be implemented in BCCI’s SGM dated September 30, 2016 but its minutes were yet to be approved. Regarding the one-state-one-vote policy, the status merely said “yet to be formulated”, without any explanation. The deadline for each of the above steps was September 30, 2016.
The second set of deadlines ranged from November 15 to December 30 and featured recommendations on elections for state associations, elections to the apex council of BCCI, BCCI AGM and appointment of ethics officer and ombudsman, creation of IPL governing council and the appointment of the management under the new rules.
For the elections to the apex council and the appointment of ethics officer and ombudsman, Johri stated it could happen after the associations would amend their constitutions, fresh elections would take place and the elected members from the associations would represent in a BCCI meeting to then form the BCCI apex council.
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