Press trust of india
Jaipur, Sept 5: The BCCI might have formed an ad-hoc body in Rajasthan Cricket Association to ensure the state’s participation in domestic tournaments but the move may lead to more legal tangles as the Lalit Modi faction in the RCA is planning to move the court against the board.
Rajendra Singh Nandu, the secretary of the Nagaur District Cricket Association (which has Lalit Modi as president), said that the BCCI’s decision to form an ad-hoc body in RCA is akin to contempt of court.
Under the provisions of Sports Act the sole right to form and ad-hoc body in a state association is with the Registrar of the Cooperative Society and perhaps because of this fact, BCCI had dropped the idea in the previous season despite going through the exercise.
“Perhaps BCCI is trying to take advantage of the deadlock between the two warring factions which has resulted in the RCA office being sealed by a court order and players being allowed to participate in the domestic cricket as ‘Team Rajasthan’ in the previous season,” Nandu said.
“The BCCI should not forget that Rajasthan is governed by Sports Act prevailing in state and former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi was elected as RCA president in the elections with sanctity of the apex court in country. The BCCI also tried to thwart Modi but the HC had cleared him to fight the RCA election in the light of the Sports Act,” he added.
“They are again making the same mistake because the Sports Act still exists and we are still the elected body of the RCA. Our legal counsel Sudip Hora is already in London and has discussed the BCCI move with Lalit Modi. I believe that we would soon move the court against BCCI,” said Nandu.