BCCI Annual General Meeting: Live updates

Srinivasan arrives to attend BCCI AGM A defiant BCCI president N Srinivasan, who braved scathing criticism on issues of propriety, today arrived to attend the Board's Annual General Meeting here.The Tamil Nadu strongman, who is vying for his third term as the BCCI President, was accompanied by his loyalists when he arrived at the hotel where the meeting will take place this afternoon.Srinivasan set to be elected unopposed N Srinivasan is all set to be elected unopposed as BCCI President for a third year even as two vice-Presidents were today unceremoniously dumped ahead of the Board's AGM on Sunday. Srinivasan was the lone Presidential candidate put forward by the South Zone, from where he got the proposer and the seconder. While Srinivasan's nomination was on expected lines, there was some interesting drama which unfolded during the nominations for the other posts. Sudhir Dabir, vice President from the central zone and his west zone colleague Niranjan Shah were removed from their positions even though both were eligible for extension. MCA president Ravi Savant replaced Shah from west zone, while senior Congress leader and union minister Rajiv Shukla took Dabir's position from the central zone. Another political heavyweight, Arun Jaitley, relinquished the vice-President's position due to his political commitments and was replaced by his Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) colleague Sneh Bansal. Supreme Court order puts Srinivasan, BCCI in quandary Earlier, the Supreme Court has given the go-ahead to Sunday's BCCI AGM but with riders. N. Srinivasan can contest and get elected but will not be able to take charge until further orders from the apex court. Hearing a plea by the Cricket Association of Bihar, which sought to stop Srinivasan from contesting, the Supreme Court today allowed the Tamil Nadu strongman to fight it out but told him not to take charge even if he is elected till further orders. Srinivasan, however, is as defiant as ever. “Nobody has stopped me from contesting elections and attending the AGM. Go through the observations made by the honourable Supreme Court, it clearly states that I have not been stopped from attending the AGM and I am also going to contest the election, why shall I not contest “ said Srinivasan. Srinivasan refused to speak about the court's observation. “I am not going to make any comment on that issue and you are free to write whatever you feel like but write the truth,“ he said.