The District and Divisional Sports Organisers Forum has threatened to boycott all activities under the Bangladesh Cricket Board if there is any interference in nomination of councillors ahead of forthcoming election. The organisation, popularly known as Forum, also demanded the National Sports Council replace the present ad-hoc committee with a five-member interim committee to run the BCB during the election.
The Forum members discussed the issue at a meeting at the Bangladesh Olympic Association on Monday, days after the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court cleared the way for BCB election under a constitution amended by the NSC in November, 2012.
In the new constitution, the divisional commissioners and the deputy commissioners of all the districts, who are ex-officio presidents of their respective DSAs, have been empowered to nominate the councillors.
Forum leaders feared it will create an opportunity of widespread interference denying the dedicated organisers at grassroots level to become BCB councillors.
‘We will boycott all cricketing activities all over the country if there any injustice is done to us,’ Forum president Yusuf Jamil Babu told reporters after the meeting. Councillors have to be nominated by the DSAs according their constitution,’
Demanding the replacement of present ad-hoc committee, the Forum president said if this committee runs the BCB during the election time they will try to influence the process.
‘This ad-hoc committee has already completed its term. So the NSC should appoint a new committee with only five members,’ he said.
Asked if they will boycott the election if there is any interference, Babu said they are in fovour of a committee with a general consensus.
‘We do not want to get involved in any quarrel with them. We want a consensus. A committee was formed to reach a consensus. If they [the BCB] want to have a discussion, we are open to it,’ he said.
Forum secretary Ashikur Rahman Miku accused the BCB president Nazmul Hasan of being biased and said he should be replaced before the election.
‘You all know the BCB president is unethically biased. He took a side which he should not have. We want the NSC to form an interim committee like it did during the election of the hooting federation,’ he said.
-With New Age input
