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`Amendment to be passed only if it is unanimously approved'

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Bangalore: The Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) Secretary, Brijesh Patel, stressed that the proposed amendment to Rule 16 will be passed during the Special General Body Meeting here on Saturday only if it secures 100 per cent support from all the members.

"Unless there is 100 per cent support and unless the proposed amendment is unanimously approved, we will not push through the amendment even if the majority supports it," Patel said in a press conference here on Friday.

The proposed amendment stipulates two terms for the President, Vice-President and Treasurer and four terms for the Secretary.

The amendment also emphasises on the need to serve in the Management Committee to be eligible to compete for all the office-bearer posts. The proposed amendment has evoked strong protest from the scion of the Mysore royal family Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadeyar, KSCA's former Vice-President G. Kasturirangan and their supporters.

Patel reiterated his earlier stance that the proposed move is only aimed at getting new people into the Managing Committee and in the office-bearer slots, every few years.

"We will try and convince all the members of the need for this amendment which has been a demand in many Annual General Body Meetings before. But we don't want to push this amendment through even if the majority supports it, because then the rival group would say that we bulldozed our way with majority support. This is an internal matter of the KSCA and it should not have come into the public domain. It is a delicate issue and if there is no unanimity behind the amendment, we might as well drop it," Patel said.

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