DDCA row: Azad targets Anurag, backs sex charge

New Delhi

Suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad today targeted another party MP and Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Anurag Thakur for his alleged involvement in crimes in cricket governance and claimed that a Serious Fraud Investigation Office probe report had recommended 'prosecution' of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the affairs of the Delhi and District Cricket Association.

Referring to Mr Thakur at a news conference here, he said, "You cannot wear two caps.

''This is a conflict of interest. Either you are in Parliament or you are associated with a sports association."

Mr Azad quoted from the report of SFIO, which had probed the irregularities in the Delhi cricket body affairs, to claim that it had recommended "prosecution" of Mr Jaitley, among others, but no action was taken in the past three years.

"Under the Companies Act, 1956, all the directors were to be assigned particular roles and if they are not, then the term (for action against them) is compounding. Twenty seven executive members, including Mr Jaitley, were not assigned any role. Twenty four of them, including Mr Jaitley, did not compound," he said.
"So SFIO recommended that under Section 5 G of the Companies Act, the Registrar of Companies should prosecute them for not compounding.

"It shows the BCCI is above law. It has been three years since the recommendation but they have not been prosecuted," he added.

Mr Azad also supported Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's allegation that a DDCA official had sought sexual favours from a woman in return for selection of her son in the cricket team.  "In 2007, I had raised a similar issue," Mr Azad asserted.