BCCI: Supreme Court approves draft Constitution with some changes, shelves ‘one-state-one-vote’ policy

The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday approved the draft Constitution for Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) with some changes.

Supreme Court’s three-judge bench constituting of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud delivered the judgement directing that the modified Constitution be registered within four weeks.

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The Court ordered that full membership be accorded to Gujarat, Saurashtra, Vadodara, Railways and Services. The apex court allowed full membership to Saurashtra, Mumbai Cricket Association, Vidarbha, Universities and Railways in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The Court also rejected the ‘one-state-one-vote’ policy for Maharashtra and Vidarbha.

The Supreme Court has asked the state cricket associations to adopt the BCCI constitution within 30 days. Each of the members should also register their Constitution once the BCCI Constitution has been registered.

The principle of cooling-off period has also been retained with certain modifications. The apex court also asserted that non-compliance of the directive by the state cricket associations will amount to legal actions.

Earlier, the apex court had accepted the Lodha recommendations to revamp Indian Cricket administration in July 2016. Supreme Court had then directed that the Lodha reforms would effectively modify BCCI’s organisational set, functioning and membership for better transparency and accountability.

It had then adapted to the ‘One State, One Vote’ policy.