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BCCI keeps Modi out of meeting on Kochi row

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Press Trust Of India New Delhi

IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi’s powers are set to be curtailed considerably as the move to clip his wings gained momentum at an informal BCCI meeting in Dharamshala where the Board’s top brass discussed the Kochi franchise ownership row. After Modi’s public spat with Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on the matter turned into a political storm and an income tax nightmare for the IPL, the Board officials held an informal conclave in the picturesque hill-town of Dharamshala. It assumes importance as it was the first meeting among the BCCI bigwigs after Modi’s tweets on the identity of Kochi stakeholders triggered off the furore.

 

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First Published: Apr 18 2010 | 12:58 AM IST

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