Ganguly, Shah to continue in BCCI posts as SC allows amendment

The Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted the proposed changes in the Board of Control for Cricket in India's constitution, which will allow current president Sourav Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah to get an extension to their respective terms. The board had put in a plea for modification of its constitution on mandatory cooling off period and tenure of its office bearers. The apex court in its order stated that office bearers can have continuous tenure of 12 years which includes six years in State Association and six years in BCCI. Both Ganguly and Shah's three-year term in the BCCI was set to expire shortly. Their tenure was technically under "extension" since the Supreme Court had not heard the plea for amendment of the rules or given any orders regarding their removal from office.

Earlier, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for BCCI, told a bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli, that the game of cricket is substantially streamlined in the country. He submitted that the apex court has said that when the bye-laws will go into functional preparedness, some changes could be made with the leave of the court. He said that the BCCI is an autonomous body and all the changes have been considered by the AGM of the cricket bodyThe top court's order came on the Board's plea seeking to amend its constitution concerning the tenure of its office bearers including its President Sourav Ganguly and Secretary Jay Shah by doing away with the mandatory cooling-off period between tenures of office bearers across state cricket associations and the BCCI.