{"id":8039,"date":"2017-01-20T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2017-01-20T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:45:28","slug":"govt-jumps-into-muddied-bcci-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/news-story\/govt-jumps-into-muddied-bcci-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt jumps into muddied BCCI waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>By Sujit Bhar<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Even as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) remains headless, and even as the Supreme Court has been directly dealing with the issues at hand, the case keeps getting murkier by the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Muddying the waters further, now the government has jumped into the \u2018<em>dangal<\/em>\u2019, so to say, with Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi requesting the apex court to reconsider its decision to sack the top brass and appointment administrators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">It may be recalled in this matter that ousted president Anurag Thakur is a Member of Parliament, representing the ruling BJP at the Centre. It has also to be remembered that the top position with the BCCI, the richest sporting body of country \u2013 it is also the richest cricketing body in the world \u2013 is a matter of pride for any government at the Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Thakur, who had openly defied the apex court in not carrying out its orders, was unwilling to give up this prized position. The government is sure that the apex court would stick to its guns of not allowing any political interference into sport. Hence this petition, which it thinks will appeal to the more tender sensibilities of the judges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The influence of top level brass at the centre cannot be ruled out. The most interested would be finance minister Arun Jaitley, who was a big operator in cricketing circles in the UPA regime. Top positions at the BCCI have not always been held by political head honchos, though Sharad Pawar was a prominent exception. However, of late, the Board has become exceptionally politicised, with decisions often being imposed \u201cfrom the top\u201d, which is another way of saying that political pressure was applied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Friday was the day the apex court was to hear from the <em>amicus curiae<\/em> it had appointed as to who the top people would be in the Board. It got a sealed cover which contained nine names (with reasons) from senior lawyer Gopal Subramaniam. At this the bench, comprising Justices Dipak Misra, AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud, said: \u201cWe don&#8217;t think that these names should be circulated. You have filed nine names. A committee cannot have nine members. We don&#8217;t think all of them can be selected.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">At this Subramaniam said that the court can drop all names but \u201cme and senior advocate Anil Divan have given&#8230; all efforts to select these names, but it totally depends on this court. But we do need a committee as soon as possible because next matches are going to come.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The court has decided that it will look into the names and pass orders by Wednesday on the composition and size of the committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">There was one clarification issued by the court. It clarified that only if a person has been a member of the BCCI or an office bearer for a period of nine years will he be barred from any further term in office. The earlier order barred members who had been serving a nine-year term or more in either or any state association or both combined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">This opens up space for more nominations to be considered, including some famous ones who would not have made the cut had the earlier order been persisted with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">On January 2, the Supreme Court had sacked BCCI president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke and had appointed Anil Divan and Gopal Subramaniam to help in choosing the right people to head the board and run it.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Sujit Bhar Even as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) remains headless, and even as the Supreme Court has been directly dealing with the issues at hand, the case keeps getting murkier by the day. Muddying the waters further, now the government has jumped into the \u2018dangal\u2019, so to say, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2046],"tags":[2100,1826,761,2101,2099,320],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RM-Lodha.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->