So it begins: Sharad Pawar-led MCA to move SC over implementation of Lodha Panel reforms

Mumbai Cricket Association would file an intervention application before the SC to highlight the difficulties in implementing Lodha Panel’s recommendations. Mumbai: Mumbai Cricket Association, headed by former BCCI President Sharad Pawar, would file an intervention application before the Supreme Court to highlight the difficulties in implementing Justice RM Lodha Committee’s recommendations to restructure the Board. “In a meeting of the Managing Committee of the Mumbai Cricket Association to discuss the far ranging consequences of the Lodha Committee’s recommendations, it was unanimously decided that the Mumbai Cricket Association would file an intervention application before the Supreme Court and highlight the difficulties and inconsistencies in the report,” the media release said. The BCCI had convened a Special General Meeting on February 19 here to discuss the Lodha panel recommendations of sweeping reforms in the Cricket Board and then decided to file an affidavit in the apex court, pointing out the “anomalies and difficulties” in implementing the Justice Lodha Committee recommendations on the restructuring of the cricket board. The Justice Lodha Committee has recommended wide-ranging sweeping reforms in the BCCI, including having only one vote per state, age cap of its officials, no simultaneous posts in state and national body along with restrictions on “The members authorised the Honorary Secretary BCCI to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court on behalf of the BCCI pointing out the anomalies and difficulties encountered in implementation of Justice Lodha Committee’s recommendations,” the BCCI said in a release after the meeting.