SC agrees to reconsider ‘one state one vote’ BCCI mandate

NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has agreed to rethink the contentious ‘one state one vote’ mandate of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and has mentioned that cricket pals in states which have performed “ancient roles” can't be omitted.

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The SC on Tuesday additionally stated that whilst finalising the BCCI charter, it won't prohibit the number of selectors to three and impose eligibility criteria that selectors have to be Test players. According to the apex court, domestic giants reminiscent of Padmakar Shivalkar and Rajinder Goel, regardless that they by no means broke into India’s Test group, nonetheless had a wealth of revel in.

The SC added that till it finalised the BCCI charter, no state association should dangle elections.


In its seventh standing file within the SC, the two-member SC-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) comprising Vinod Rai and Diana Edulji had really useful elections for recent set of office-bearers by way of disposing of appearing president CK Khanna, appearing secretary Amitabh Choudhary and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry, bringing up the top of their tenures as in keeping with the BCCI charter. The CoA additionally requested for the SC’s path on having an AGM without adoption of the brand new charter as the in keeping with Justice Lodha Committee reforms.


In its standing file, the CoA cited Rule 15 (i) of current BCCI charter which states: “The election of Office Bearers and vice-presidents can be held at the AGM of the Board once a year. The workplace bearers and vice president so elected will dangle workplace for three years.”


On July 18, 2016, the SC had authorized the Lodha panel's 'one state one vote' advice and relegated those our bodies to associate membership without balloting rights. It had additionally requested the three our bodies each and every in Maharashtra and Gujarat to experience complete membership with balloting rights on rotation foundation.


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