MUMBAI: Former Chief Justice of India RM Lodha, who recommended overhaul of the cricket governance in India, on Tuesday said things would move fast in the BCCI after the newly-appointed administrators take charge after 19 January.
“Just wait for 19th (January), I believe as soon as administrators are appointed by the Supreme Court, they take over, things would, I believe, move fast,” he told reporters on the sidelines of launch of late jurist Nani Palkhivala’s biography written by his friend Dharmendra Bhandari.
On 2 January, the Supreme Court directed BCCI and all state associations to implement recommendations of the committee headed by Lodha.
Justice Lodha noted: “The first timelines have gone haywire. They are not relevant now. But better late than never; of course there is a delay of six months. But I think that will be repaired. There has to be (fresh timelines), but that will be done by the administrators. We said we don’t have that much of time, and that there has to be layers of administrators. Wait for a while. The changes will happen. We will be there to supervise and guide the administrators.”
With the final order of PIL made on July 18, Justice Lodha said there was no scope for discussions and negotiations. “We had spoken to all office-bearers, the late Jagmohan Dalmiya, Anurag Thakur, Anirudh Chaudhry, Amitabh Choudhary, Shashank Manohar and six former India captains — Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Sourav Ganguly, Kapil Dev and Bishan Singh Bedi.’’
