BCCI has approached the Supreme Court in order to amend the organisation’s constitution, in regard to the tenure of its office bearers — including Sourav Ganguly and Jay Shah. A bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Krishna Murari was informed by senior advocate and BCCI representative PS Patwalia that the application regarding the amendment was filed in 2020 and the court ordered the matter to be listed after two weeks.

“But then Covid happened and matter could not be listed. Please list this matter for urgent hearing because amendments to the constitution are in pipeline for two years now,” PS Patwalia said.

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The BCCI advocate also pointed out that a previous order by the court says that such an amendment can only be completed with prior permission from the court.

As a response, the Supreme Court bench has ordered the matter to be listed in the forthcoming week.

As for the reforms in the BCCI is concerned, a committee led by Justice RM Lodha had recommended several changes inside the organisation, which was accepted by the Supreme Court.

The Lodha committee recommended that a ‘cooling off period’ for all office bearers in the BCCI or state cricket associations, once their six-year tenure comes to an end. The BCCI later sought to scrap the cooling off period for its office bearers, the termination of which will help President Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah to continue at their respective roles.

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As things stand currently, the constitution of the BCCI mandates a three-year cooling off period for anybody to have served two back-to-back terms or three years each in state cricket association or in the BCCI.

Ganguly was serving as the President of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) before he became the BCCI president, while Jay Shah had held office at the Gujarat Cricket Association.