BCCI wants more time for Lodha implementation

The Supreme Court today reserved its order on directions to be passed to BCCI for implementation of Lodha panel’s recommendations. “You need 3/4th majority to adopt these recommendations. We have done our duty to go back to the state associations and they have to take a call on that. If you don’t have 3/4th majority, you cannot adopt these recommendations,” Thakur told mediapersons after the court proceedings. 

“Right now, there is more confusion in the state associations on how to implement the recommendations, I think we need more clarity,” he added.

The BCCI has held on to its stand about “practical difficulties in implementing some of the recommendations” which include ‘One State One Vote’, ‘Age Cap of 70 years’, ‘Three years Cooling off Period’, ‘One Person One Post’.

According to sources in the state associations, the units want to bide time as BCCI awaits the revised Sports Bill which could affect the Lodha recommendations.The BCCI is likely to ask for at least three months as it is impossible to expect that the Sports Bill could be tabled in the Winter Session of Parliament.