MUMBAI: Veteran politician and erstwhile top cricket administrator Sharad Pawar has filed an appeal in the Supreme Court seeking a review of the one-state-one-vote proposal suggested by the RM Lodha commission.
The former ICC and BCCI president was one of the biggest names in Indian cricket administration and resigned as president of the Mumbai Cricket Association in December 2016 adhering to the norm of age-cap of 70 years as prescribed by the Lodha panel.
Pawar’s appeal, which according to Hindustan Times was made on Monday, came exactly a week before a Supreme Court bench is expected to deliver its order on the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s new Memorandum of Association. The draft constitution has been scripted by the Lodha panel and endorsed by the court-appointed Committee of Administrators.
Seventy-six-year-old Pawar has been a past president (2005-2008) of the BCCI and the ICC (2010-2012). After serving three terms as Mumbai cricket chief, Pawar had to resign after the Supreme Court, in July 2016, said the Lodha proposal on age and tenure were binding on affiliated BCCI units.
If the Supreme Court approves the new BCCI constitution, then Mumbai will have to take turns with Pune-based Maharashtra Cricket Association and Vidarbha. The Brabourne Stadium-based Cricket Club of India, that enjoyed voting rights, will be relegated to an associate, HT further reports.
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