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Acting president CK Khanna acts, cancels SGM

Only one person, who by default has become important due to his seniority in the BCCI, was missing from action. And that was acting president CK Khanna, who apparently told the secretary that "media pressure" was holding him back.

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A total of 26 Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) members – 19 full and seven associate – assembled sharp at 4.30 pm at a Delhi five-star hotel to attend the much-awaited Special General Meeting (SGM) on Tuesday to implement all but three Justice Lodha panel reforms as recommended by the seven-member Special Committee of the BCCI.

Only one person, who by default has become important due to his seniority in the BCCI, was missing from action. And that was acting president CK Khanna, who apparently told the secretary that "media pressure" was holding him back.

The pressure, though, was from within a powerful BCCI faction led by Tamil Nadu strongman N Srinivasan.

DNA has learnt that Khanna was forced to cancel the SGM at 11 pm on Monday after six of the state associations – Tamil Nadu (Srinivasan), Saurashtra (Niranjan Shah), Haryana (Anirudh Chaudhry), Kerala (TC Matthew), Karnataka (Brijesh Patel) and Goa – raised objections against calling the SGM on technical grounds.

Khanna, who himself has been ruling Delhi cricket for nearly 35 years, immediately sent out a letter to the Srinivasan-ruled Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA), which was then apparently distributed among all the other state units.

"This is surprising because I came to know through TNCA mail and not from BCCI," a senior BCCI member told DNA after the cancellation of SGM. "We should have gone ahead with the SGM as there has been an instance when the late Jagmohan Dalmiya convened a similar SGM in 2002 after giving just two-day notice. Moreover, we had the necessary quorum of more than 10 members here. What are we now going to tell Supreme Court on July 14?" added the member.

It is learnt that SC-appointed Committee of Administrators chief Vinod Rai has strongly expressed his unhappiness to BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary over the farce that happened in the name of SGM. Why, Rai would even "pen it down" as part of his status report to be submitted to Apex court on July 14.

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