 "Anurag Thakur speaks to Srinivasan, Sanjay Jagdale")
Srinivasan is facing the ire of some of the Board members after it came to light that his son-in-law, Gurunath Meiyappan, was arrested for being allegedly involved in spot fixing.
Apart from state cricket association, Ajay Shirke, BCCI treasurer, has also threatened to quit from the top post because the allegations.
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“I have requested to BCCI President N Srinivasan and Sanjay Jagdale, the Secretary, to call a meeting where every member should get a chance to present his views and discuss the punishment for those guilty. A meeting has to be called by the President and Secretary. It’s a not a number game. Very soon, the BCCI Secretary and the President will call a meeting, we have to wait,” said Anurag Thakur, who is a joint secretary of BCCI’s working committee and also a senior member of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association.
Although BCCI is mulling over a tentative date to hold the BCCI meeting and is looking June 8 as a possible date but holding the meeting at that time could be difficult as BCCI Vice President Arun Jaitley and joint secretary Anurag Thakur would busy attending the national executive meeting of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa from June 7 to June 9.
While Thakur has indicated that there would be no voting in the special meeting of the BCCI, the state associations of cricket are coming out against Srinivasan. After Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association asked for Srinivasan’s resignation, Assam, Delhi and Goa have openly asked the BCCI President to take moral responsibility for the actions of his family member and resign from the top post.
However, some of the powerful BCCI members and state associations continue to support Srinivasan.
Meanwhile, Srinivasan denied that ICC had sent a letter to BCCI earlier this year before the start of IPL with a warning on the actions of Meiyappan and the people he was meeting. “I have checked with BCCI officials, we have never received any warning on Gurunath Meiyappan,” said Srinivasan while talking to reporters.
Soon after the controversy started, two senior members of the BCCI, Arun Jaitley and Rajiv Shukla, had asked Srinivasan to “step aside” till the probe was continuing against the role of Meiyappan in the spot fixing scandal.
“There is no doubt that cricket is shaken because it is a question of the faith of crores. Everybody wants a fair probe and that is why we have two retired judges and the BCCI Secretary probing the matter. When two judges are there, you can be assured that the inquiry would be fair,” Thakur added.
In another breakthrough in the IPL spot fixing, Delhi Police has claimed that Rajasthan Royal player Sidharth Trivedi will be made prosecution witness against S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan. Trivedi has told police that Chandila had allegedly offered him money and gifts from bookies and had also invited him for a party organised by bookies.