national sports
Crusader
Against BCCI
Corruption
submitted its report but the BCCI still not giving any sign of its
implementation……
(Interrupts) The BCCI and its affiliates are not agreeing to it
because they have used, misused and abused the government
offices in the past. But, sooner or later they would realize that
it’s a judicial order which you can’t disobey at all. They are
committing series of contempt but at the end they will have
to implement the fantastic judgment that has come out of the
Justice Lodha Committee’s recommendations.
A
surprise choice for the tour of Australia and New
Zealand in 1980-81, Kirti Jha Azad has been surprising
both the government and the opposition by
remaining at loggerheads both inside and outside the
government for making Indian cricket a gentlemen’s game in
true sense. He tried to do this from his own Delhi Sports Council
by alleging Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and paid the
price politically.
However, the suspended BJP lawmaker from Darbhanga is
again firing from all his cylinders against the political masters
not allowing the Supreme Court to wash out the corruption
ridden Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI). Madhav Jha talks
to Kirti Jha Azad and fishes out his views on the continued sleuth
between the Supreme Court and the BCCI. Edited excerpts:
It’s more than ten months since the Lodha Committee
the committee. The committee is only required to fix a threshold
value and approve awards of contracts above it”.
The Board is supposed to have met the committee to sort
out the issues and inform it that it would fully comply with the
reforms by Thursday, November 3, but it has not done so.
The Board will have to give the undertaking to the
court. It continues to harp on reservations about certain
recommendations which it says have to be approved by the
respective state associations and some of them need a threefourths majority to get through. All payments to the association
have also been stopped by the court till they comply with the
recommendations.
Both the Lodha Committee and the Board should come down
from their avowed stands to break the impasse. The committee
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The Supreme Court reprimanding the BCCI for delay in
implementing Lodha Committee recommendations, reflects
about BCCI bosses thinking themselves above the law?
Well, yes. Some political masters of the BCCI feel exactly the
same. Over the years, the BCCI has blatantly violated the law
on the land, and major reason behind this are the political
masters who want to have their say into the BCCI matters. Here,
I would like to add that all political parties are equally guilty
into it, whether it is ruling or its opposition, UPA or the NDA,
all of them have behaved as if they are above the law. Clearly,
it is going to end after the Lodha episode and Supreme Court
looking determined to get its recommendations implemented.
Whom do you think is guiding or misguiding BCCI Chief Anurag
Thakur?
Surely there has to be some people from the government. And I
feel it could be Arun Jaitely because Anurag thakur is very close
BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke along with BCCI selection
committee chairman MSK Prasad interacts with media