The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA), which was entrusted with the task of of implementing Lodha committee's reforms, has requested the apex court to remove the current office bearers of BCCI - acting president CK Khanna, acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary - from their posts for having failed to follow the orders of the court.
In its report submitted to the court, the Vinod Rai-led committee requested the court to let it take over the governance, management and administration of BCCI - as the current office bearers are “unfit to continue and be removed” till fresh office bearers are elected.
The CoA asked for the court's go-ahead for drafting the new constitution of the BCCI and also a new funds disbursal policy to end misuse of money by some state units of BCCI. In the report, the CoA said that BCCI office bearers have failed to ensure the implementation of the Lodha reforms in the last six months, and hence should be removed..
“The CoA submits that since the then president and secretary of BCCI had been removed because the board failed to implement the reforms mandated by the judgment despite a period of six months having elapsed, it is only fair that the current office-bearers be treated in the same manner. It is clear that the current office bearers are not in a position to make good on their undertakings and ensure that the reforms mandated by this court are implemented,” CoA wrote in its report.
The COA also blamed the board officials for not looking into basic issues like `conflict of interest' and the appointment of an ombudsman. CoA says it tried to bring in transparency but its efforts were “stonewalled by state associations.”
