The former Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Anurag Thakur has filed an application in the Supreme Court on Tuesday seeking the recall of the order that removed him from that post.

On January 2, 2017, a three-judge SC bench sacked Thakur and then BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke from their posts due to failure to implement the Lodha committee reforms. Those decisions were taken by the Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud.

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When the SC bench, leading by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, has agreed to review some of Lodha Committee’s recommendations like ‘one state, one vote’, ‘cooling off period’, Thakur has filed this latest application.

In his new application, Thakur said that he has been associated with the game and BCCI for a long time since 2000, but the last year’s SC order has caused him “immense mental anguish and public embarrassment”.

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The former President of Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association has further added that he was “not heard either in person or through counsel” prior to his removal by the SC order.

Thakur has claimed that the SC order in last year was a matter of “public discussion and debate which has affected his public image”. He further added that the decision was also a pain for his family.

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Thakur submitted, “I have been very clear that these suggestions, which have the seal of the court, are the heart and lungs of the reforms. If they are in any way modified, the very efficacy of the reforms would be lost.”

Thakur has also claimed that the order has been taken without hearing him.