Amitabh Chaudhary disappointed with new "ward" rule for government officials
In a new rift in the BCCI, acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhary has spoken about his disappointment with the change in eligibility rules for domestic competitions. He pointed out the biased nature of the new transfer rules for wards of government officials, which do not adhere with the older rules.
Recently, BCCI’s general manager of cricket operations, Saba Karim, had released a circular notifying that “wards of Government employees on transfer shall be eligible to play as a local player for the State /Association where the government employee has been transferred/posted subject to submission of the parent's transfer order and Aadhar card of the player bearing the new address.” Choudhary feels that this rule
In a message to Karim, Choudhary expressed his discontentment, stating, “The eligibility rules have been in existence for a very long time. These rules should have remained firm until the best cricketing brains had examined them. Besides, where was the compulsion to do it well after the season had begun,
In addition, Karim has been stated guilty of putting through these changes without the green flag of Technical Committee or any other member associations of the board.
In the pre-season window, BCCI had released a mandate informing that to be eligible to play for a new side as a local player, the cricketer should have been a resident and employee/student in the jurisdiction of that area covered by the association for a year, from
The sudden reversal irked Chaudhary, and even more so, the partially inclusive nature of it. He demanded answers remarking, “Why should departure be made only for government servants? Are they a special class of Indian citizens? According to the argument advanced it seems only they cannot determine their postings as if others, working in companies and multinationals, decide their places and dates of postings. Clearly, the basis of such change is without any merit.”