On Thursday, Chaudhary questioned Gupta’s lack of experience in handling such a high-profile job.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary has refused to sign on the appointment letter of newly-appointed general manager (marketing) Priya Gupta.
On Thursday, Chaudhary questioned Gupta’s lack of experience in handling such a high-profile job.
Choudhary even sent an email to CEO Rahul Johri in which he reiterated that this particular position was not even recommended by the Justice Lodha panel.
The way things stand now and as per directions issued last week by Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (COA), either Johri or general manger (cricket operations) Saba Karim will now have to do the formalities of signing on the recruitment letter of Gupta.
To drive home the point, Choudhary mentioned Lodha panel recommendations, stating: “There would be a, maximum of six managers to assist the CEO, who would have expertise primarily in the streams of operations, finance, technical, compliance (legal), human resources and media.”
Choudhary explained that “the need for marketing manager in an institution like BCCI was not felt to be of primary concern even by the Hon’ble Justice Lodha Committee”. He further challenged the procedure carried out by the COA in appointing the GM (marketing), where none of the BCCI office-bearers were kept in the loop, except for Korn Ferry — the agency that was entrusted with the job to find the suitable candidate.
Citing the minutes of the meeting that took place on June 12, 2017 at JW Marriot in New Delhi, where he participated in the meeting via Skype, Choudhary writes that the decision to engage Korn Ferry as the recruitment agency was not told to him. “...for reasons unknown, the decision on this particular aspect (Korn Ferry) awaited my exit from the meeting despite the fact that in the capacity of the acting secretary it would be the undersigned who would be required to sign on the appointment letters, as is the case now.
“It is now well accepted that one of the basic reasons for the constitution of the Lodha panel was to bring in greater transparency in the affairs of the BCCI. From your description of the process and observations made above it can hardly be said that the process followed was transparent inter alia because the elected representatives of the organisation, which is going to pay for the proposed executive, were unaware of what transpired in the preliminary or subsequent interviews for a post that is not a part of the Justice Lodha recommendation,” alleged Choudhary.
Choudhary has also hit out at the COA for the procedures followed to recruit the agency and alleges that even before it came on board to assist the BCCI, it was short-listing the candidates for the GM (marketing).
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