Lodha report: SC to revisit order

Satya Prakash

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 24

The Supreme Court today said it was willing to reconsider certain points of its order for the implementation of the Lodha panel report, including “one state-one vote” policy and reduction of number of selectors from five to three.

The order came after Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar submitted that regular Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) members such as the Railways, Defence Services and the Association of Indian Universities had been reduced to associate members without voting rights because of “one state-one vote” policy.

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Kumar was supported by BCCI counsel Puneet Bali, who batted for Saurashtra and Baroda and sought to impress upon the court that the order needed to be modified.

A Bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra, however, refused to allow former BCCI president N Srinivasan and former cricket administrator Niranjan Shah to attend the July 26 special general meeting of the BCCI. Only state cricket association office-bearers can attend the SGM, the Bench said.