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."
"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."
"A list of all such former international players (men and women) who have been granted membership with voting rights shall be provided to the Committee of Administrators and put up on the website of the State Association prior to finalization of the electoral roll of the State Association by the electoral officer so that any former international players (men and women) who may have been missed out have an opportunity to have their name included therein."
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