Elections of office-bearers of the Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) are likely to be held by November, as per lodha Committee recommendations. This was decided in the OCA Council meeting here on Sunday.
All the officials unanimously agreed to abide by the reforms made by the Supreme Court appointed lodha Committee.
“We are ready to conduct the elections. We will file an affidavit in the Supreme Court in a day or two stating that we abide by the recommendations of lodha Committee. Then all the by-laws will be changed accordingly as per recommendations. So, I think the process will be over by November,” OCA working committee chairman Dhiren Palai said to reporters after the meeting.
The BCCI and all other State cricket bodies are bound to follow the panel’s guidelines, he added.
The OCA stopped the district level tournaments due to non-release of funds from the BCCI. It had written to the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) expressing its inability to host Ranji Trophy and other domestic fixtures in Cuttack due to acute fund shortage.
The elections were necessitated following resignation of OCA president Ranjib Biswal and secretary Asirbad Behera . The duo along with 173 officials had stepped down in January after the Supreme Court dismissed BCCI president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke for not abiding by the reforms suggested by the lodha panel.