The faction supporting Goa Cricket Association's president Vinod Phadke today questioned the state government' intervention in its affairs.
"The government has no role to play in GCA. GCA is not accepting any funds from the government. It is not aided by the government in any way. So where is the question of de-recognition?" said GCA's legal adviser G T Kirtani, accompanied by Phadke, at a press conference here.
The state government recently issued a notice to GCA, threatening to withdraw its recognition for failing to implement recommendations of Justice Pendse commission which probed ticket sale scam during a 2001 India-Australia match.
The commission had recommended that Phadke should not be allowed to be a part of GCA's affairs. The government's notice has divided GCA in two factions: One backing Phadke and another demanding his ouster.
Kirtani said the state government cannot even appoint administrator to GCA, as it was being threatened. "If it had powers to appoint administrator, don't you think it would have done it by now?" he said.
He also pointed out that while the Pendse commission had submitted its recommendations in 2002, the state cabinet refused to accept them in 2005. "After 12 years, government is using the recommendations to oust the president," he said.
GCA secretary Chetan Desai, a Phadke supporter, said the managing committee in its meeting on September 3 took no decision about taking away Phadke's powers. "The resolution was drafted after the meeting....It has no legal standing."
In the meanwhile, 11 out of the 15 members of GCA's managing committee today passed a resolution empowering vice president Shekhar Salkar to represent the body at the meeting of BCCI's working committee on September 26.
