State units 'surprised' after COA wants fresh voters' list
21 May 2018 5:57 PM GMT
New Delhi: A fresh diktat from BCCI's Committee of Administrators (CoA) instructing all states to have former India internationals in their electoral list has left the affiliated units surprised.
The COA has today sent a mail to the state units making it "mandatory for all State
Associations (including those which have only representatives of district associations or
clubs as voting members in the General Body) to grant membership with voting rights to
former international players (men and women) hailing from the State."
The new mail has left some of the state units, where there are only clubs and district units as voting members, fuming.
"This is a direct attack on our fundamental constitutional right to form an association as per the Constitution. Also the fact that earlier, a state unit that did not have any individual voter members, were told that former cricketers can be just made members," an office-bearer of a state unit said on Monday.
"Now we have to incorporate them in voter's list. So why then can't we also have normal members. This is an infringement on our rights as to how we form an association."
The two states that will now have a complete overhaul of their list is Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) and Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) where there is no individual voting. In CAB, it is the clubs and the districts that have voting rights while MCA only has clubs. The COA has also instructed the units to provide them with complete list of former internationals, who are eligible voters.
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