Retired Chief Justice of India, RM Lodha said only one unit per state will represent and vote in BCCI as he made public the Lodha report on Monday. The former Chief Justice of India also said that BCCI president Shashank Manohar had implemented recommended reforms immediately. The Lodha committee had on Monday submitted its report to the Supreme Court, which suggested a host of drastic administrative reforms for the BCCI following the investigation into the 2013 IPL spot fixing scandal. The Lodha committee was formed on January 22, 2015 by the apex court after the Mudgal committee, appointed as an investigator into the scandal, submitted its report. The committee comprises Lodha, and retired Supreme Court judges, Ashok Bhan and R Raveendran.
The panel was asked by the court to make suitable recommendations to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in reforming their governance model and to eliminate conflict of interest apart from setting the quantum of punishment for those involved in the IPL scandal. The Mudgal panel has found that former IPL COO Sundar Raman had called the contact of a bookie several times during a season. The panel had released the first part of its report in July last year and had suspended Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) franchises for two years, besides suspending Gurunath Meiyappan and Raj Kundra for life from any matches conducted by BCCI. The panel met around 90 former players, including six former India captains, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Sourav Ganguly, Kapil Dev and Bishan Singh Bedi, administrators, cricket historians and journalists before finalising its report.
