Lalit Modi, the Chairman of Indian Premium League (IPL), and one of the key contestants in the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) elections, who are fighting for his reputation, must be rather pleased with the decisions being given by Supreme Court in his favor.

Only two days are left for the elections to the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA), and it seems it is one soap opera that would really go down to the wires. Where in the world would one find that the court, and the Supreme Court at that, interfere and try to set the things right about the muddle that the state of affairs of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) has entered into?

The parties involved are also interesting; there is a political dispension which is presently ruling in the state, and there is a man who is supposed to be having immense financial clout at his disposal, it arising from the sheer effort through which he was able to convert a moribund state cricket association, RCA into one of the biggest profit making centers in India.

The immediate interference of the court was on account of the cancellation of the voting rights of the supporters of Modi in the Sri-Gangangar District Cricket Association (SDCA), which was annulled at the last moment by the government of Ashok Gehlot, and it has been restored by the intervention of the Supreme Court.

SDCA’s case was argued by  Senior advocate Mukul Rohatagi, who had only scorn for the Gehlot government’s blatant attempt to overreach the SC’s February 20 order by which the polls, earlier scheduled for February 22, were postponed to March 1 and fresh nominations were allowed.

Mukul Rohatagi informed the bench comprising Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam that on the same day, that is February 20, the Registrar of Societies, allegedly at the behest of the state government, superseded the management of SDCA and appointed an ad-hoc committee.

What it meant was that RCA orders had paved the wait for creation of a new committee that would vote in the March 1 polls and not the body which was functioning for the last three years after being duly elected.

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