BJP leader Anurag Thakur has moved the Supreme Court seeking recall of its order of January 2 last year, stripping him of his position as the BCCI president and [ordering him] to “forthwith cease and desist” from associating with Indian cricket’s most powerful body.
A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud had declared Thakur and the then BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke “unfit” to continue at the helm of the BCCI for their “obstructionist” attitude and specious pleas about their incapacity to make affiliated State associations fall in line with the Justice Lodha reforms.
The application dated July 31, 2018 has been filed shortly after the Supreme Court has reserved order on the draft BCCI Constitution even as it has indicated that it does not agree with some of the key Lodha reforms like one-State-one Vote and cooling-off period.
Even Justice Lodha panel’s suggestion to bar government ministers from holding key positions with the Board had come under consideration.
Mental anguish
In his application, Thakur said he has been associated with cricket and the BCCI since the year 2000, and the January 2 order of the Supreme Court has caused him “immense mental anguish and public embarrassment”.
He said the order has imposed on him “adverse civil consequences” without hearing him. It had ordered him to “cease and desist from acting as the president of the BCCI, which is an extremely prestigious elected post”.
