24 Apr : Amid ongoing IPL controversy, owner of Royal Challengers Bangalore Vijay Mallya on Saturday met BCCI vice-president Sharad Pawar in Mumbai to pitch in for Lalit Modi to be given an opportunity to clarify his stand.
However, the BCCI top brass is in no mood to consider embattled IPL commissioner Lalit Modi’s plea to defer the Governing Council meeting by five days and made it clear that it will go ahead as per schedule of 26th April.
The BCCI has already told Modi that it would not change the date of the meeting as allegations of financial irregularities and the entire controversies related to IPL were far too serious to defer the meeting any further.
Modi had Friday sought five days time to prepare himself for the Governing Council meeting which is expected to take a hard stand and even press for his removal.