Aditya Verma, the original petitioner in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing case will soon appeal to the Supreme Court to exempt the compulsory three-year cooling-off period of the BCCI president Sourav Ganguly which begins in July. According to the new BCCI constitution based on justice RM Lodha committee’s reforms, any person who works as an office-bearer in the state, as well as BCCI for six years on a row, will have to spend a compulsory cooling-off period of three years.

“Being the original petitioner on whose PIL the whole constitutional revamp happened, I have decided to file a plea that apex court should let Sourav Ganguly and his team (secretary Jay Shah in this case) continue for a term of three years,” Verma told PTI on Monday.

In case of Sourav Ganguly who was the joint secretary and later president of the Cricket Association of Bengal and took over the BCCI chief post last October, had nine months in the BCCI office. On the other hand, Shah, who has been the secretary of Gujarat Cricket Association for more than five years, will also go through a compulsory cooling-off period.

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“My entire intention was to ensure BCCI has a transparent functioning. If a person of Sourav’s stature can’t complete his term, then what’s the use?,” he told. “The BCCI had been completely mismanaged by the Committee of Administrators (CoA) for nearly three years. Any person coming in charge needs to time to put a system in place. Ganguly and his team must be given that time.”

“If you look at the current scenario. There is a complete lockdown in the country due to COVID-19 pandemic. Supposedly we lose two months of activity, it is unfair on both Ganguly and Shah that they are not given a fair chance to set the house in order. That will be my plea,” Aditya Verma said.