Following the Supreme Court’s ruling that BCCI members with commercial interest in BCCI-organised events — including the IPL — are not eligible to contest the BCCI elections, the candidates will have to give an undertaking to that effect to the BCCI.
Elections are to be held for the post of principal office-bearers (president, secretary, jt. secretary and treasurer) and five vice-presidents.
Apart from the IPL, the BCCI organises tournaments in the senior, junior and women’s categories and also organises the annual awards and the M.A.K. Pataudi Memorial lecture. Many other committees are also nominated by each zone. Generally BCCI office-bearers obtain unanimity for selection committees, but there have been occasions when selectors have been elected.
Eligibility rules The BCCI by-laws also specify eligibility rules for members wanting to contest elections. Past or present office-bearers or vice-presidents, except the president or a member who has represented his association at two AGMs, can contest for the post of office-bearer (secretary, jt. Secretary and vice-president).
The president must be a past or present office-bearer or vice-president of the Board nominated by at least two full members from the zone, whose turn it is as per the principle of rotation.
He must have attended two AGMs representing a full member.
The BCCI’s rules also say that such candidate or candidates (for the post of president) need not be from the same zone that is exercising its right of nomination by rotation.
According to the by-laws of the BCCI, the office-bearers and vice-presidents who get elected at the next AGM will have a tenure of three years.
But the question now though is, will the BCCI be forced to conduct another election in September 2015, should the Supreme Court’s three-member panel recommend amendments to the eligibility rules for elections.
The Supreme Court has said that the three-member committee’s deliberations will not affect the BCCI AGM and elections to be held within six weeks.
