BCCI meet on 15 Sept to decide on scrapping rotational policy

MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is planning to scrap the rotational policy of appointing president.

The BCCI has called for a Special General Meeting in Chennai on 15 September to make amendments to the clause that will allow candidates from any of the five zones to stand for future presidential elections.

N Srinivasan, the outgoing president of the board, is from South Zone. As per the current rotational policy, it is East Zone?s turn to send a president when Srinivasan completes his term in 2014.

The changes, it is believed, is being brought to pave the way for BJP leader and Delhi District Cricket Association president Arun Jaitley ascension to the top of BCCI hierarchy. Without amendment to rotational policy clause, Jaitley would have to wait till 2014, when the North Zone?s turn comes to appoint a president.

"As per the existing rule, a president has to be from a particular zone whose turn it is by rotation to take over the presidentship. The change sought to be made at the SGM is that the future presidential candidate may belong to any of the five zones, but only needs to be proposed and seconded by the zone whose turn it is," newswire PTI quotes BCCI sources as saying.

The move will strengthen the control of policians in the world?s richest cricket board which has been grappling with charges of financial misconduct in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Earlier, Congress leader and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla was appointed as IPL chairman.