Hyderabad:The Justice RM Lodha Committee was appointed by the Supreme Court in 2014 to make recommendations to The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in order to prevent frauds and conflict of interest in cricket administration.
According to the committee’s report, it is important to maintain the integrity of the game instead of protecting the interests of select few. Assumptions that selection committees, board election and state-level teams will be reformed in the wake of this committee’s guidelines have been proved false.
After the SC orders, those who expected that the likes of Srinivasan and Niranjan Shah will be denied entry into the board, are shocked. The severity of instructions was diluted, and reforms are being misinterpreted.
Seeing the election of new board members across various regions, it’s clear that the kith and kin of previous board members have been appointed in their place. In Tamil Nadu, which is Srinivasan’s bastion, his daughter Rupa Gurunath took charge of TNCA.
In Saurashtra, Jayadev Shah, son of Niranjan Shah and in Baroda, Pranav Ameen, son of Ameen have been elected. The same scenario repeated in Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Odisha. Several petitions have been filed in SC for violating Lodha committee’s guidelines in Himachal Pradesh.
Appointing blood relations of previous members to make way for corruption is a deadly blow to Indian Cricket.
Justice Mukul Mudgal committee has been appointed by the Supreme Court to probe into the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal. Despite guidelines about committee recommendations on age and tenure guidelines, fraudulent members could not be ousted.