The much-awaited elections of BCCI have been rescheduled by a day to October 23 in the wake of assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra, Chairman of the Committee of Administrators (CoA) Vinod Rai told PTI on Tuesday. Both the states will be voting on October 21 in a single-phase elections and in order to make sure the voters from the two units are not inconvenienced, the Cricket Board poll, which was to be held on October 22, has been postponed by a day.
On Tuesday, Rai said, “The BCCI elections are on track. It’s just because of the state polls, we have decided to reschedule by a day. So it will now be held on October 23 instead of October 22. Anything else that you read anywhere will be factually incorrect.”
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Another CoA member Diana Edulji said while she is “against any delay in conducting the BCCI elections”, she understands that a day’s extension is due to state polls. She explained, “As per the Supreme Court order passed on September 20, the state units may be granted a few days’ grace but BCCI elections should be on time. We may defer it by a day due to assembly elections in Maharashtra on 21st.”
Rai was happy with the outcome of the Supreme Court hearing on Tuesday during which its petition seeking clarification on the permission granted to the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association to hold elections, was admitted.
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CoA chief said, “Today, the petition came up for hearing. The BCCI counsel was there, TNCA counsel and amicus curiae PS Narsimha was there. I am happy with the outcome. The SC took cognizance of the fact that some state units are misinterpreting the order mischievously on ‘disqualification being confined to office-bearers only’.”
The CoA, in its petition to the Supreme court, has also presented the status of compliance of 38 state units of BCCI. There are 24 full members out of which, Railways, Services, and Universities will have an authorized representative as per the BCCI constitution. The CoA has also informed the court that seven full members have had their constitution approved by it but have not yet presented the document.
According to the CoA, only two members — Haryana and Tamil Nadu are “not compliant and failed to bring their constitution in line with the approved one.”
The BCCI elections will end the tenure of the Supreme Court-appointed administrators, governing Indian cricket. The CoA has been governing the game since January 2017 and was mandated to implement the administrative reforms suggested by the Justice (Retd) R M Lodha committee.
