The Rajasthan High Court has extended the stay on the RCA election until further orders are issue. Rajasthan High Court extended the stay on holding new elections to the RCA until further orders on Friday.
The Rajasthan High Court extended the stay on holding new elections to the RCA until further orders on Friday. The RCA election, in which Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s son Vaibhav running for president, set to take place on Friday. Justice Mahendra Goyal also gave the RCA’s Election Officer Ramlubhaya. The Principal Secretary Sports of the Rajasthan Government, and the Registrar cooperative a week to file their responses.
The case has now been schedule for a hearing on October 11.
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The court dismissed RCA’s arguments and stayed the election.
District Cricket Associations (DCAs) from Dausa, Nagaur, Sriganganagar, and Alwar filed a petition.
According to the writ petition, the RCA election officer Lubhaya is a retired IAS officer who is not “independent.”
The DCAs’ counsel argued that Lubhaya actively engage in the state of Rajasthan and working under the chief minister’s son. Vaibhav Gehlot, who is not only the outgoing president of the RCA but is also running for the same position again.
Lubhaya was allegedly appoint chairman of a high-power committee for district delimitation in Rajasthan for six months in March this year, and then as election officer on September 8 this month.
Later, on September 13, the state government extended his term on the committee until 2023. In order to “influence” the RCA elections. The petition claimed that the election officer is not a “fair and independent” person. As the Supreme Court intended when it approved the Lodha Committee report in the BCCI case in 2016.
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The RCA counsel argued that if mere fatherhood is the criterion for claiming that elections are being influenced, Jay Shah is secretary of BCCI and his father is Union home minister, so it cannot be said that even BCCI is under political pressure.
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