Former Maharashtra Cricket Association president Abhay Apte feels state associations have found way to bypass Lodha Committee reforms
FirstpostThe Lodha Committee’s reforms for Indian cricket had suggested ’no concentration of power and no multiple terms’ but the tenet isn’t being followed in practice New Delhi: The basic tenet of Justice RM Lodha panel’s constitutional reforms for Indian cricket has fallen flat after most of the state units are being controlled by family members of disqualified office-bearers, feels former Maharashtra Cricket Association president member Abhay Apte. Niranjan Shah’s son Jaydev is Saurashtra unit’s secretary, Anurag Thakur’s brother Arun is Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association supremo, tainted and jailed Ashirbad Behera’s son Sanjay is the new secretary of Odisha Cricket Association. “Yes, we have finally understood what precisely were the reforms suggested by Hon Justice Lodha Committee,” Apte, who was a prominent member of the BCCI legal committee, told PTI on Wednesday. Apte, a lawyer by profession, who was also a member of the BCCI’s legal committee, sarcastically said that he has now “understood” what Lodha Panel’s basic tenet of “no concentration of power and no multiple terms” meant.