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BCB violates its constitution?

SPORTS REPORTER
The build-up for elections in the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) got off to a chaotic start on Saturday when the most demanding sports federation of the country announced a list of ten former national team players as councilors for polls under a new constitution.
The selected cricketers are --Shamim Kabir, ASM Faruque, ASM Roquibul Hassan, Jahingir Shah Badsha, Dipu Rai Chodhury, Omer Khalid Rumi, Wahidul Gani, Azhar Hossain Shantoo, Jahingir Alam Talukdar Dulu and Shahidul Rahman.
The list is an outcome of a recent meeting between some former national cricketers and Board president Ali Asghar, who recently won a court verdict to hold elections in the BCB after a long battle with the deposed directors.
The inclusion of former national cricketers as councilors in the approved Constitution 2003 (which is yet to be made public by the National Sport Council) is an welcome revelation in an otherwise
regressive formula that every sports federation has been complying with over the years.
But the manner in which the cricketers have been selected as councilors clearly violated the new BCB constitution. Clause 9 (13) of the constitution reads 'that the former national cricketers would select ten persons among them' in the panel of 160 councilors.
At the moment there are about 120 cricketers who have donned the national cap but unfortunately they don't have a valid organisation. The only legitimate body now in existence is the Cricketers' Welfare Association of Bangladesh (CWAB) which is a body comprising active and non-playing cricketers. CWAB however can nominate a councilor.
But the non-existence of such organisation for the select group of players prompted the Board president to take the responsibility of nominating the ex-national cricketers, which is clearly not a democratic norm and the chosen set has already raised a few eyebrows.
If someone studies the list he or she would be amazed to see that a particular generation of cricketers have been totally overlooked. There is hardly anybody to argue the contri-
butions that Akram Khan, Aminul Islam, Minhazul Abedin, Gazi Ashraf Hossain made to country's cricket. But they have been ignored despite the fact that they laid the foundations in Bangladesh's elevation to the Test family and are very much involved with cricket affairs still today.
Besides, the cricketers should have been allowed to choose their representatives in a democratic manner. The Board president said that he took up the matter to avoid complicating the electoral process.
But if it was true that the constitution was passed in 2003 then why it was not disclosed earlier? Had it been published earlier the cricketers could have easily sat together and launched an organisation?
Cynics believe that the selection of councilors is nothing but an attempt to entertain political motives sacrificing merit.
And even before the 160 councilors exercise their votes to elect 28 members in a 31-member executive committee including a general secretary, four vice-presidents, two joint-secretaries, a treasurer and 20 members democracy is going to be the first victim?