Shivlal Yadav shed light on the BCCI’s memorandum, rules and regulations that bestows two votes — first vote and an additional casting vote, in order to break a tie — at Working Committee meetings, Annual General Meetings and Special General meetings.
Misinformed members have questioned the right of the an interim president to exercise a casting vote. Explaining the BCCI and his position (as Chairman of the BCCI AGM in Chennai) on March 2, the former India off-spinner turned administrator told The Hindu.
“I was not the interim-president at the AGM. Sanjay Patel (Secretary, BCCI at the start of the AGM) and Anurag Thakur (Jt. Secretary, BCCI before the start of the AGM) proposed and seconded my name to be the Chairman and I was unanimously elected.”
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According to the BCCI’s rule 5 (i), every full member and chairman of meeting shall have one vote. The 30 full members of the BCCI are : South Zone — 6 (Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Hyderabad, Andhra, Karnataka, Goa), West Zone — 6 ( Mumbai, Maharashtra, Saurashtra, Baroda, Gujarat, Cricket Club of India), East Zone — 6 (Bengal, Odisha, Tripura, Assam, Jharkhand, National Cricket Club (NCC)), North Zone — 6 (Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Services), Central Zone — 5 (Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Railways, Vidarbha, Rajasthan) and Association of Indian Universities.
Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Bengal, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh are permanent members of the working committee.
The BCCI has suspended the Rajasthan Cricket Association for defying BCCI’s rules and regulations and hence it was not even sent notice. At present all its cricketing activities have been run by a court-appointed BCCI committee.
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The Associate and Affiliate members are eligible to attend meetings, but are not entitled to a vote, get elected as member of the working committee, or office-bearer or vice-president.
Shivlal Yadav who was discharging the duties of the sidelined President N. Srinivasan, as a consequence of the IPL-related muddle, was elected Chairman at the recent AGM as per Rule 20 (BCCI Rules and Regulations) which states that “The President shall preside at the AGM or SGM of the Board and in his absence one of the vice-presidents elected at the meeting shall preside. In the event of all the vice-presidents being absent, the meeting shall elect one among themselves as the chairman of the meeting.’’
Rule 21 (Casting vote or drawing lots) says that: “Save, as provided otherwise by these rules, questions at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes and in the case of an equality of votes, the chairman shall have a casting vote. In the event of the chairman of the meeting desiring not to exercise his casting vote, the issue shall be decided by drawing lots.’’
Followers of the game who kept in touch with happenings in Chennai were also surprised by T. C. Mathew’s election as vice-president from West Zone and Delhi’s C. K. Khanna from Central Zone. Mr. Mathew is the president of the Kerala Cricket Association.
The amended BCCI rules and regulations (15b) for election of office-bearers and vice-presidents states: “It is clarified that such candidate or candidates need not be from the same zone that is exercising its right of nomination by rotation.”