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Sports Bill is all about govt control: BCCI chief

Cricket Board president N. Srinivasan said that the Sports Bill of the government was all about trying to control the national federations and questioned its application to the BCCI.

"This is all about control (by the government)," Srinivasan said when asked about his views on the Sports Bill. He also agreed that the Bill was not going to produce Olympic gold medallists in the country.

Asked why the BCCI was against the application of the Right to Information Act, he said, "In principle, why should RTI applies to us, we don't take any money from the government. There is no secret in our functioning.

"Except that the information regarding the selection of the team cannot be made public everything is in public domain. We are very transparent," he told NDTV in the 'Walk the Talk' programme.

Srinivasan vehemently denied that there was conflict of interest in him being the Manager Director of India Cements which owns IPL side Chennai Super Kings and a Cricket Board office bearer.

"All the decisions of the Board are taken by the General Body and the IPL Governing Council has 13 members. And no decision concerning the IPL are made exclusively for the sake of a particular franchise," he said.

"Why India Cements bid for the IPL was for the Chennai People. Our company have been supporting cricketers for the last 50 years since when there were no money in cricket. The people of Chennai would have missed out on am IPL team," he added.

Asked about the case of former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi now being probed by a BCCI Disciplinary Committee, Srinivasan said, "Modi has made serious allegation against the BCCI. We expected people to be honest and above board, We don't think so in case of Modi.

"The Disciplinary Committee will come out with its final verdict and we have to take action. But there was no personal issue between me and Modi," he said.

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