Why it is in news?
- The Supreme Court has finalised the new Constitution for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
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It rejected the ‘one State-one vote’ recommendation of the Justice R.M. Lodha Committee and altering the cooling-off period for cricket bosses.
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Softening the rigour of the recommendations, a three-judge Bench disagreed with Justice Lodha that cricket could prosper only if the BCCI was represented by every State and Union Territory.
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The former CJI had relegated cricket associations to the status of associate members.
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Instead, the court restored full BCCI memberships to three associations in Gujarat and Maharashtra each.
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They are the Maharashtra, Mumbai and Vidarbha cricket associations in the State of Maharashtra and the Baroda and Saurashtra cricket associations in the State of Gujarat.
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To utilise territoriality as a basis of exclusion is problematic because it ignores history and the contributions made by such associations to the development of cricket and its popularity.
Source
The Hindu