CP Joshi, a veteran Congress politician and the president of RCA, decided to suspend the entire panel of Nagaur District Cricket Association (NDCA) in the newly-elected executive committee's first meeting at Jaipur.
Thirteen years ago, on a balmy noon, Lalit Kumar Modi was elected president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA), a springboard that would in the years to come catapult him to stardom in Indian cricket.
On Saturday, he was suspended from the Nagaur district body of the RCA of which he is the president, a move which not only unseats him from his last bastion in state, also hoicks him out of Indian cricket scenario he had stormed into in 2004.
CP Joshi, a veteran Congress politician and the president of RCA, decided to suspend the entire panel of Nagaur District Cricket Association (NDCA) in the newly-elected executive committee's first meeting at Jaipur.
The decision resulted in the exit of RCA secretary, Rajendra Singh Nandu, a staunch Modi aide who had contested the polls from Nagaur in May this year. Joshi had defeated Modi's son Ruchir Modi in the polls to helm the state cricketing body.
Joshi clarified the decision was aligned in cricket's interest in state because the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) wouldn't allow matches till Modi was replaced.
"We have endorsed the BCCI orders," Joshi said. "The association has decided to dissolve Nagaur DCC. The DCC officials have been suspended according to the RCA constitution. We will go to BCCI with a clear message that Mr Lalit Modi is no more involved with the RCA," he told reporters.
Joshi hopes that BCCI will be satisfied with the action RCA has taken and would help revoke the ban on cricket in state.
The BCCI had suspended RCA in May 2014 after Modi was elected its president again. BCCI had earlier imposed a condition that it would consider revoking suspension of RCA only if the former IPL commissioner was removed from the cricketing body.
RS Nandu, who was the secretary of the NDCA and won the same post in RCA polls, claimed the decision was not in consonance with RCA's constitution.
"I sought a month's time in the meeting, but the decision has been taken in violation of the Sports Act that governs the RCA. This is not acceptable at all and I will register an FIR against this unconstitutional move," Nandu said.
Nandu later lodged a police complaint, which brought the cops from Jyoti Nagar police station swarming to the RCA campus inside the SMS Stadium.
Meanwhile, former deputy president of the RCA and Modi's counsel Mehmood Abdi said the actions taken in RCA executive committee are "totally illegal and void".
"If previous records of democratic functioning are any standards to go by, today was the darkest day for democracy and public propriety in the RCA. It is somewhat like the imposition of draconian Emergency that a duly constituted district cricket association has been attempted to be disbanded without any show cause and opportunity," he said in a statement.
Not only that, there has been an attempt to remove the elected secretary of the association by the president in the very first meeting of the executive committee. "Neither these two decisions were on the circulated agenda of the meeting. nor is there any power vested in the executive committee, let alone the president, to suspend any DCA on the grounds not provided for in the RCA constitution and without any show cause," he said.
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