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Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor’s names were proposed for BCCI’s probe panel

A member from North Zone made a mockery of the meeting.

Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor's names were proposed for BCCI's probe panel
The three Bollywood starlets (From left clockwise) Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra and Kareena Kapoor. Photo Courtesy – DNA.

 

By Derek Abraham

 

April 21, 2014

 

The working committee is the most powerful decision-making body in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). In fact, any decision taken by every other committee has to be ratified by the working committee. On Sunday, though, an emergent meeting of this all-powerful committee was reduced to a farce. If Sharad Pawar’s revelations aren’t shocking enough, then read this. A member, who represented North Zone, — was there as per the board’s rotation policy — actually made a mockery of the meeting.

 

It is being said that he suggested that the names of Bollywood starlets Priyanka Chopra, Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif to be proposed to the Supreme Court to probe into the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal. And bizarrely enough, no official — not even interim-president Shivlal Yadav, who chaired the meeting — reprimanded this official. A senior official who attended the meeting confirmed the same.

 

“I don’t know who nominates such jokers to a meeting of such prominence. We were all there trying to save the BCCI from further embarrassment. But on Sunday, I realised that the BCCI is one big circus. All they want is to scratch each other’s back. Nobody is interested in cleaning up the mess. I wonder why the chair did not raise an objection to such a stupid suggestion.”

 

(The writer is Principal Correspondent at DNA, where the above article first appeared)

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