The Lalit Modi letter — vis-a-vis constitutional amendment in the election process of the Board president — has not been brushed aside.
MUMBAI: The Lalit Modi letter — vis-a-vis constitutional amendment in the election process of the Board president — has not been brushed aside. The Board of Control for Cricket in India president Sharad Pawar has agreed for a discussion over the letter.
At the office-bearers’ meeting held at his residence in New Delhi on Wednesday, the Board president told his colleagues that he had received letters from different associations over the amendments which the BCCI wants to bring in the election process of its president.
The discussion over the amendments, which enables the Board to have a president-elect one year before his actual term starts, will be held a day before a Special General Meeting of the Board takes up the issue on August 21.
Pawar told the office-bearers, according to a source in the board, “certain people have raised objections to the amendment and let us deliberate upon it.” He has said that he would call a meeting at the Cricket Centre in Mumbai on the evening of August 20.
As reported by DNA, Modi has suggested to the Board that the amendment should also apply to posts of secretary, joint secretary and treasurer too, lest the Board stood the danger of having office-bearers from different camps.
Modi was not willing to discuss the letter but a member who was present at the meeting said the Rajasthan Cricket Association president, who is a vice-president of the Board, looked satisfied. The discussion over the issue started after members saw the report in DNA.
But Modi’s proposal has evoked a cautious and mixed response from Board members. “We can’t have election for all the office-bearers,” an influential member told DNA, while another member said there is nothing wrong in Modi expressing his opinion over the amendment.
“We’re a democratic body and any reservation over a proposal cannot be deemed as dissent,” he said. Once the amendment is implemented, a president-elect will be elected at the Board’s Annual General Meeting in September this year, exactly one year before the election is due for the post. Pawar is scheduled to hold the president’s office till September 2008.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that some members too have expressive opinions over the amendment but it was not known who else has written to the Board president. The sources close to former president Jagmohan Dalmiya camp, however, have also said that no letter has gone from Kolkata.
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