Keeping ministers out illogical: Shirke

PUNE: Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) president Ajay Shirke has strong reservations about the Lodha committee's recommendation to keep ministers and government servants out of the Indian cricket board (BCCI). "I don't understand the logic behind it. Only after reading the report will we know the reason behind such a recommendation," Shirke said.
"An impression is being created that ministers are bad and corrupt while some other professionals are honest.Why is it that a politician is fit to hold a position in the BCCI but once he becomes a minis ter he is not fit for the job?" Shirke was diplomatic on the committee's another rec ommendation, that there should be one voting unit per state, a rule that will have a huge bearing in Maharashtra.
"As an individual, I am okay with it. But what my as sociation thinks or the eight affected associations think that I will know only when this is put in front of them," he said. "People have forgot ten why some of us came into the game. We have come to give, not to take."
On the committee's recommendation that the BCCI should be brought under the RTI ambit, Shirke said such a move would be "illegal". "It would be contrary to existing law. The act is not applicable to institutions and others who do not take public funds."