Training his guns on the Sharad Pawar-led BCCI, Jagmohan Dalmiya asserted that he would go on all those who considered the Board as their personal property.
KOLKATA: Training his guns on the Sharad Pawar-led BCCI, Jagmohan Dalmiya on Sunday asserted that he would go on all those who considered the Board as their personal property and bend rules to suit their own interests.
Bubbling confidence after getting a stay from the Calcutta High Court on his expulsion from the BCCI, the former board chief said that he would carry on his battle if the Board continued to harrass him and tried to establish a rule of the jungle.
"I will continue my battle against them. They can come again and again, but I will take them on," Dalmiya said.
Cocking a snoop at the BCCI that expelled him last December, Dalmiya said that the way they went about it, it was as if they were trying to ban me not only in this life, but in the next birth as well.
"Is this democracy? It is the rule of the jungle. My battle has been based on truth. Now it has been proved."
Within minutes of getting the relief from Calcutta High Court, Dalmiya filed a perjury case against the BCCI President Sharad Pawar, Niranjan Shah, and Vice-Presidents Shashank Manohar and Chirayu Amin for allegedly placing forged document before the court.
"I will go all the way to see that those who consider BCCI as their personal property and bend rules for their vested interest are taken to the docks," Dalmiya averred.
Since taking control of the board in September, 2005, when Pawar defeated Dalmiya's nominee Ranbir Singh Mahendra in the presidential race, the ruling group had gone on the offensive against the former board chief.
The board filed an FIR against Dalmiya, slapped court cases against him for alleged misappropriation of funds of PILCOM (Pakistan India Lanka Committee, the organizing body of the 1996 World Cup of which Dalmiya was the convenor), barred him from attending BCCI meetings and finally expelled him from the board.
Following his expulsion, Dalmiya put in his papers as Cricket Association of Bengal president, ending his decade-long stewardship of the CAB.
"Those were difficult days for me staying away from the sport I love so much. But I was not going to compromise on my self-dignity," he said.
Dalmiya said that he had spent most of the troubled times concentrating on his business and spending time with his family.
"At the back of my mind, however, there was the shadow of the allegations, but I kept waiting silently," said the former chief of the International Cricket Council.
The Calcutta High Court judgement on Friday allowing Dalmiya to contest board elections and staying the expulsion order, has prompted Dalmiya to break his silence and launch a counter-offensive against the board.
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