With three BCCI VPs calling for his head, will Srinivasan resign?

New Delhi Pressure is mounting on N Srinivasan to quit as BCCI chief with three Vice Presidents joining former cricketers and administrators in asking him to respect the Supreme Court observation that he should step down for a fair probe into the IPL fixing scandalAfter going through the contents of a report filed in a sealed cover by apex courtappointed probe panel into the scandal a bench headed by Justice A K Patnaik said there are very very serious allegations made in the report and unless the BCCI President steps down no fair probe can be conductedN Srinivasan has very few options in front of him now File PicThe beleaguered Srinivasan now appeared isolated even within the Board as three of the five vicepresidents Shivlal Yadav Ravi Savant and Chitrak Mitra asking him to abide by what the Supreme Court observationSC has given the order nobody can challenge it We have to accept it Since the SC has given an order there is no question of going back on it or giving an opinion on that It has to be carried out in total and BCCI will have to follow whatever the Apex Court has given Yadav a vicepresident representing South Zone saidAsked if he was willing to do the duty he said Absolutely I am ready to accept any responsibility given to meAnother VicePresident Ravi Sawant who is representing West Zone asked Srinivasan to resign within the next two days before the matter comes up before the apex courtSupreme Court is the highest authority It the SC has said Srinivasan must step down nothing can be done If the Supreme Court has said he should resign then he should step down within these two days Savant saidIf there is a vacancy in the post of BCCI president the GBM of the BCCI will decide who will occupy the vacant chair he addedVicePresident from East Zone Chitrak Mitra said that a fullfledged president will take over after Srinivasan steps downThe SC verdict said Srinivasan should step down for a proper investigation into IPL fixing scandal If he does not stepped down the SC will pass an order to that effect on March 27 Thats all about it Mitra saidSince the term of South Zone for BCCI presidency is going on most probably Shivlal will become the president Last time also when Srinivasan could not attend the BCCI meeting due to his fathers demise Shivlal presided over it Mitra saidThis time it will not be an acting president Jagmohan Dalmiya was made acting president because at that time Srinivasan only stepped aside not stepped down Its different this time Srinivasan has been told to step downFormer cricketers Mohinder Amarnath and Bishan Singh Bedi and exBCCI administrator and former Rajasthan Cricket Association President Kishore Rungta also called for Srinivasans stepping downAmarnath a member of 1983 World Cup winning team said that the game was bigger than an individual and Srinivasan should step down in the interest of Indian cricketIn the interest of the game one should step aside and let the enquiry go on As a lover of the game he should step down He should respect the law and he should honour what Supreme Court has suggested Lets see how it goes Amarnath saidBedi took to Twitter to express his opinion BCCI touches lowest lowthx SC nudge Srini must step dn amp out of all matters crktingWhat happens2all his cronies in bcci amp iccHail SC he tweeted shortly after the court observationIn his second tweet Bedi wroteJustice MMudgal arrived on Indn crkt scene most providentiallyaptly 2 clean up corrupted cultureany culture gd or bad stems frm top downRungta was scathing in his criticism of Srinivasan whose soninlaw Gurunath Meiyappan was found guilty of placing bets on his IPL team Chennai Super KingsI am happy that Supreme Court has asked him to resign This was absolute arrogance that he was continuing as President of the BCCI Rungta saidThe conduct committee earlier had said no Board member would indulge directly or indirectly with the game IPL team An Exception was made for Srinivasan which was wrong I wish Supreme Court had taken a view at that time Rungta saidSrinivasan had stepped aside in June 2013 after Meiyappans name had cropped up in the fixing scandal which had to led to ban on paceman S Sreesanth and his two other Rajasthan Royals colleaguesIn his absence former BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya discharged the duties of the PresidentHowever at the BCCI AGM in September 2013 Srinivasan was reelected as PresidentSupreme Court had appointed a threemember probe panel led by retired judge Justice Mukul Mudgal to investigate into the fixing sagaThe Apex courtappointed panel had replaced BCCIs own twoman probe panel which had exonerated Meiyappan of any wrongdoing and its verdict was challenged in the courtsFormer BCCI president Shashank Manohar said if he was in Srinivasans position he would have relinquished his position long backIf you ask me I would have stepped aside BCCI is more important than an individual Individuals dont matter You have to maintain the integrity of the institution and thats very important Manohar saidFormer BCCI treasurer Ajay Shirke echoed similar feelings It was strictly personal decision that I took because that time I felt uncomfortable with what was happening and therefore I decided to quit Srinivasan for whatever reason decided not to resign So its now coming to the state where the Supreme Court had to come down heavily on the board Personally to me this is a very sad thing because we all have been members of that august body It is sad to see that BCCI has landed in such a situation Shirke said