Mumbai: Beleaguered IPL Commissioner, Lalit Modi, made a startling revelation in the ongoing controversy over the stakeholdings in IPL franchisees by saying that he was willing to reveal the details off all franchisee holdings but was stopped from doing so by BCCI president, Shashank Manohar.

Modi also claimed that the IPL Governing Council meeting, which has been called on April 26, is illegal and asked for it to be cancelled. “If the meeting does go ahead on 26th April instead of 1st May as I have asked it will deem to be unofficial. I do not propose to attend any unauthorised meeting,” he said.

The IPL supremo claimed that he was stopped by Manohar and IPL Governing Council members including Arun Jaitley after he had written a mail to all franchisees, to BCCI members and to the IPL governing council on April 14, saying that all ownership details should be disclosed.

Modi wrote, “Propriety and fair play demand we should as public body disclose ownership details along with name of directors of all franchisees once again. Earlier, we, at the time of bidding, only disclosed the names and share holding. If everyone is okay with this, we will issue the same right away, that way all doubts and aspersions being cast on IPL franchises and members of GC appropriately rebutted. I hope you all agree with the same.”

BCCI president, Shashank Manohar, replied to the mail on the morning of April 15, saying, “The issue is complex and needs detailed deliberations and has legal implications, and can be considered at the Governing Council (meeting).”

Manohar’s opinion was supported by several Governing Council members, including Ravi Shastri, Arun Jaitley, Niranjan Shah and Chirayu Amin.

Sensing Modi’s defiance, the BCCI has already started talking tough with Media and Finance Committee chairman Rajiv Shukla, saying that if the situation demands, tough decisions will be taken when the IPL’s Governing Council meets.

“The question of people refusing to back down or not, they don’t matter. After the meeting between BCCI President Shashank Manohar and Sharad Pawar yesterday, it has been decided that in the April 26 Governing Council meeting, we will sit together and unanimously decide what to do,” Shukla said. “These decisions would in the interest of cricket and the BCCI. No matter how harsh they might seem, decisions would be taken to protect the BCCI and cricket’s image in the country. We have never compromised on our image in the past 60 years and there would be no compromise this time too.”

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