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COA Diana Edulji accuses BCCI CEO Rahul Johri of violating board constitution

Edulji said that Johri attended the selection committee meetings and subsequently covered it up by furnishing excuses like helping in Team India opener Mayank Agarwal’s visa-related work.

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Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (COA) member Diana Edulji has claimed that the BCCI CEO Rahul Johri has violated the cricket body’s new constitution.

She said that Johri attended the selection committee meetings and subsequently covered it up by furnishing excuses like helping in Team India opener Mayank Agarwal’s visa-related work.

Launching a scathing attack on Johri’s December 31 reply to all BCCI members, the former India captain, has reminded Johri that while “he justified his presence in selection meetings to facilitate visas process of Mayank Agarwal, along with other cricketing issues”, he forgot that when the decision in this regard was taken (on October 27), he was forced to go on leave due to sexual harassment allegations.

“You (Johri) say your job is limited to providing any logistic support, thus it does not permit you to attend the meeting and be privy to the deliberations which are supposed to be confidential,” Edulji shot off a letter to all BCCI members, including COA member Vinod Rai.

Replying to Johri’s answer that he has been doing it under the directions of COA (read Rai) “asking the CEO to be present in all committee meetings (including selection)”, Edulji cited new BCCI constitution, registered on August 23, 2018, clause 21 point 1 and 3 (regarding cricketing matters) that clearly states that “selection is to be done by the cricket committee comprising only of players”.

“None other than the selectors, concerned captain and the secretary sit in the meeting once the selection deliberations actually begin. The Secretary (Amitabh Choudhary) has stated that this has been the practice since 2015 and continues till date (both before and since the Hon’ble SC order dated January 2, 2017),” Edulji further stated.

Edulji has been at loggerheads with Rai ever since the later decided to constitute three-member special committee to decided on Johri’s fate after the sexual harassment charges.

The mistrust between the two further deepened after Indian women’s team new coach WV Raman was announced despite Edulji calling the selection process a sham and instructing BCCI GM Cricket Operations Saba Karim to keep the announcement at abeyance.

“There can be no clearer proof of violating the selection committee rules and the BCCI constitution than the above and it pains to understand that this behaviour has been continuously harboured which is a direct violation of the registered constitution and clear misconduct as per the employee agreement by the CEO, who is supposedly the one to ensure that the new constitution is to be implemented and adhered to under the COA,” Edulji wrote.

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