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IPL governing council meet to discuss Modi’s fate

 In a bid to clip Lalit Modi’s wings, IPL governing council (IGC) would meet on April 23 to discuss the role of the IPL commissioner in the Kochi franchisee row.

Talking exclusively to Zee News, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah, who is also a member of IPL governing council, said that IGC would meet on April 23. However, conflicting reports claim that the IPL governing council is scheduled to meet on April 25.

Abdullah said Lalit Modi had to come clean on the stakes held by his relatives.

Asked whether he would want Modi to be removed from the post in the light of his public spat with Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, Dr Abdullah said: “No, I would not be in favour of it. But I would want the BCCI president also to exert a dominant power.”

Abdullah’s confirmation came after BCCI vice president Rajiv Shukla informed on Saturday that the governing council, which met informally on Friday in Dharamshala, would meet after the IPL gets over.
It seems that the anti-Modi lobby of BCCI led by Dr Abdullah got the date of IPL governing council meeting advanced by two days.
The source indicated that Modi’s powers as commissioner would be most probably curbed when the IPL governing council meets either on April 23 or on April 25.

Modi’s detractors in the BCCI are pressing for his head as they feel he has brought the IPL under media glare for all the wrong reasons but as of now, it appears that he would continue in the post till his term ends in 2012.

“As of now it seems he will remain in the post but definitely his powers would be curbed and he will not be allowed to take decisions unilaterally,” the source said.

Besides Lalit Modi and IS Bindra, the 14-member governing council has former cricketers Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi as well as politicians and BCCI office bearers such as Arun Jaitley, Rajiv Shukla, Farooq Abdullah, Shashank Manohar, Niranjan Shah, MP Pandove, Chirayu Amin, Sanjay Jagdale and Niranjan Shah.