05 June 2004	Saturday	16 Rabi-us-Saani 1425

LAHORE, June 4: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Lahore City Cricket Association are again at odds over the issue of elections within the association.

The LCCA has decided to hold its elections which had already been delayed for two years and in that connection the West Zone elections were held on Friday.

The PCB issued a press release stating: "This proposed action is violative of the undertaking given by the LCCA to the PCB in terms of Article 13 of the PCB constitution.

"The power to demarcate zones falls within jurisidction of the PCB exclusively under article 44 (d) given by the PCB constitution, this is even evident from the LCCA's constitution wherein the election committee is to be nominated by the PCB.

"Therefore these elections being violative of the directions and in conflict with provisions of the PCB's constitution would not be recognised by the PCB," the press release stated.

When contacted, LCCA president Aamir Hayat Khan Rokri said that his association was an elected institution, therefore, it was independent. The LCCA, he added, has been holding its election since its inception in 1974. He claimed that there was no any clause in the LCCA which authorized the board to appoint any election committee.

The LCCA president said that the board was illegally holding the elections in the district and that was why the Multan and Rawalpindi cricket associations had taken their cases to the court. He said that the PCB had suspended its constitution but whenever any activity happened against its interest it referred to the constitution.