Moments after the Supreme Court (SC) filed strictures against BCCI President-in-exile as well as the International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman, N Srinivasan, former Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner, Lalit Modi, has launched a scathing attack on the current members of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Modi took to twitter as soon as contents of the SC's comments on Srinivasan became public. The SC came hard on the ICC Chairman and wondered if, 'he being an office bearer of the BCCI could also be an owner of a franchise in the IPL.' It also observed that the Indian board had become a 'mutual benefit society' and asked Srinivasan to explain his 'conflict of interest'.
"I agree conflict of interest must go. Further the guilty must be punished and made example off, (We) can't sweep it under the carpet," Lalit Modi tweeted.
Modi, who was thrown out of the IPL in 2010 on charges of financial irregularities, threw the rule book back at BCCI and demanded the immediate banning of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR), the two franchises whose owners have been named by the Mudgal panel.
The SC had formed the Mudgal panel to investigate charges of 'spot-fixing and betting in IPL 2013'. It concluded that Gurunath Meiyappan, the son-in-law of N Srinivasan and 'team official' of CSK, as well as Raj Kundra, co-owner of Rajasthan Royals, were guilty of being actively involved in betting.
"CSK and RR must be cancelled. If owners indulge in betting activity the rule book must be thrown at them," Modi tweeted.
The Mudgal Panel noted that Sundar Raman, the Chief Operating Officer of the IPL, was in close touch with a bookie during the 2013 IPL and had spoken to him as many as eight times during the course of the tournament. Modi, who had worked with Raman during his stint with in the IPL, had no kind words about his ex-colleague. "Raman should be locked up, too", was his blunt tweet.
Modi also went on to ask for the dismissal of all the BCCI board members who were perceived to be close to N Srinivasan. "All BCCI members who prematurely voted in favour of Srini and gang must be disallowed or banned to participate in cricket activity," he wrote.
Saying that today was a sad day for Indian cricket, Modi hoped this would be a lesson for the future generation of cricketers and administrators.
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