Friday, January 30, 2009: JAIPUR, India: With most of the district cricket associations up in arms and a few court cases lodged against him, Lalit Modi is in danger of being stripped of absolute powers he was enjoying as the Rajasthan Cricket Association President.

About 24 of the 32 district units, including that of Secretary Subhash Joshi, have handed a memorandum to Registrar of Societies and the move might result in clipping his powers.

Forgery case against Modi in Rajasthan, the district associations are also pressing hard to revert to RCA’s old constitution as Modi, with the backing of then Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje, had managed to bring a ‘Sports Ordinance’ in the state in 2005.

Riding on the contentious clauses of the ordinance, Modi was able to route the Kishore Rungta faction in the RCA elections in 2005. He formulated a new constitution for the RCA, which provided absolute powers to the President.

The district associations c ould not dare speak against the might of Modi but now they are trying to revert back to the old constitution which has all powers invested in the complete executive.

In their efforts, about 24 units have joined the campaign and have signed a memorandum which would be given to the Registrar of Societies. The move was on after RCA President denied acceding to their demands of early elections.

Reportedly the representatives of these districts had a meeting with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and were assured of ‘all co-operation’ at the government level.