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DALMIA TAKES OVER AS
INTERIM BCCI CHIEF


Bowing to all-round pressure, N Srinivasan today agreed to
“step aside” as BCCI President under a compromise formula
that brought back former Chief Jagmohan Dalmiya as head of a four-member “interim
arrangement” to run the Board,more than a fortnight after the
spot-fixing scandal rocked cricketing world.
In a decision in which the pro-Sharad Pawar group appeared
to have suffered a dent, the Working Committee of the
Board decided that Dalmiya will
conduct its day-to-day affairs after Srinivasan announced that he will not discharge his duties
as the President till such time the probe is completed.
Sources said that key members including Arun Jaitley, Rajeev
Shukla and Anurag Thakur appeared to have tilted the
scales in favour of Dalmiya and softened the blow on Srinivasan.
While the Pawar group may have wanted former Chief
Shashank Manohar in Dalmiya’s place, it could also not ensure
that Srinivasan resigned.
73-year-old Dalmiya will appoint a new member on the three-
member inquiry commission in place of Sanjay Jagdale that will go into the allegations of betting and spot-fixing against Srinivasan’s son-in-law and CSK
Team Principal Gurunath Meiyappan and his franchise
CSK.
24 members of the Board attended the meeting in which
there was no demand made for his resignation, Srinivasan said
though Punjab Cricket
Association Chief I S Bindra claimed that he did. Two senior
members of the Working Committee also said that the
word resignation was not used at the meeting.
The meeting also urged Secretary Jagdale and Treasurer
Ajay Shirke, who have resigned from the posts a couple of days
ago, to rethink their decision and get back to the Board in 24
hours.
However, both of them said after the meeting that they have decided not to withdraw their
resignations.