With its new president Ranbir Singh Mahendra busy with electioneering in Haryana, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has gone unrepresented at the ongoing two-day Asian Cricket Council meeting in Dubai, with Jagmohan Dalmiya attending the meeting in his capacity as ACC president and not as BCCI representative.
"Dalmiya is not attending as BCCI representative, but in his capacity as ACC president," Board secretary S K Nair said on Monday.
"Only the heads of the boards are entitled to represent the affiliate units at this meeting. But Mahendra is now busy canvassing for the Haryana assembly polls. And as per protocol and rules of this meeting, we cannot nominate any alternative office-bearer," Nair said.
To buttress his contention, Nair referred to the ICC CEO's meeting in Melbourne from February 2-5, which he would be attending.
"Since I am the BCCI CEO, I am entitled to attend it. Despite court restraint on the BCCI on selecting its representative in ICC, there is no bar on me attending it."
Dalmiya, who stepped down as the Board chief recently, was cautioned by a cricket club in Chennai against attending the meeting as a representative of the BCCI as it would be contempt of a court order.
A Chennai court had stayed the appointment of Dalmiya as BCCI representative to the ICC or any other international fora at the reconvened Annual General Meeting of the BCCI in Kolkata on January 27 and as a result the meeting ended in just 30 seconds without taking up any matter for discussion.
