Mumbai: It’s an all-out war now between the BCCI and the Indian Premier League commissioner, Lalit Modi, with Modi moving the Bombay High Court to stop the Governing Council meeting scheduled for April 26.

Sources close to Modi confirmed that he has already intimated the BCCI that as the commissioner of the IPL, only he can convene a meeting of the Governing Council, but the BCCI chief Shashank Manohar hit back at Modi, saying that the meeting will go on as planned and Modi should think about coming clean on his family interests in IPL teams.

The two have gone all guns blazing in the IPL war and the BCCI chief, for the first time, publicly attacked Modi, saying that the IPL chief had violated the confidentiality clause by putting out IPL Kochi shareholding details on Twitter and asked why he hadn’t disclosed his relatives’ holdings in IPL teams.

Earlier in the day, the Board rejected Modi’s contention that the April 26 IPL Governing Council meeting was illegal and made it clear that it would go ahead with the meeting as per schedule. “It is his view point, everybody is entitled to their viewpoint,” BCCI president Shashank Manohar said when asked what he thinks about Modi’s contention that the meeting was unauthorised.

The BCCI also disagreed with Modi’s stand that secretary N Srinivasan could not convene the Governing Council meeting, merely because he is part of an IPL franchise.

“It is not a question of owner. He (Srinivasan) is not calling the meeting as an owner of the team and in the board constitution, the secretary is the convenor of all meetings,” Manohar said. “Whether there is conflict of interest is not an issue because Mr Srinivasan, when this issue had cropped up, had sought the permission of Mr Sharad Pawar, who was the president of the board then. Mr Pawar had granted him permission to bid and it is not Mr Srinivasan who is bidding, it was India cements which is bidding and after his bid was accepted it was confirmed by the general body.”

“Mr Srinivasan was a declared bidder. If Modi and his relatives had a share in any of the franchises, he ought to have declared it at the meeting. I was not a member of Governing Council then. He ought to have told everybody,” he said.

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