N Srinivasan stood disqualified after purchasing Chennai franchise: Inderjit Singh Bindra

'Srinivasan stood disqualified after buying CSK'

Dec 8, 2014

Former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Inderjit Singh Bindra on Monday said that the troubled current chief of the board, N Srinivasan, stood disqualified right from the day his company India Cements bought Chennai franchise of Indian Premier League (IPL).

In a series of tweets on Monday evening, Bindra provided his observations on the ‘conflict of interest’ matter being discussed in the Supreme Court.

He wrote on Twitter, “To the best of my recollection, permission for team bid was sought by India Cements and not by Srini [Srinivasan] as treasurer. Board Constitution barred any commercial dealing by Board official SP [Sharad Pawar] had no authority to give any permission.” (sic)

He continued, “I specifically objected in Goa meeting and asked him to recuse himself. That is when they conceived of anti dating the amendment. Amendment was surreptitiously included in the minutes of 2008 AGM circulted in 2009. There was no specific agenda for the amendment Srini stood disqualified from the day he purchasd Chennai team. On this issue we had numbr of clashes in IPL mtngs & consequent walkouts.” (sic)

Bindra then spoke about ‘major’ conflicts of interests in Indian cricket.

“PURCHASE OF CHENNAI SUPER KINGS was the mother of all conflicts. In Goa mtng 2008 I had proposed that anti-corruption should be handed over to ICC. Srini vehemently opposed-obvious conflict of interest,” he said. (sic)

Bindra continued, “PURCHASE OF FLINTOFF BY CHENNAI SUPER KINGS-complete details on Lalit Modi’s blog. Despite clear cut decision to put ALL PLAYERS IN THE POOL FOR RE-AUCTION AFTER 3 YEARS, he had his way on RETENTION OF PLAYERS. SAHARA CONTRACT FOR TEAM INDIA WAS FOR 3.3 Crores/match. After Sahara’s withdrawal Srini signed a contract with STAR with 30% reduction.” (sic)