Raj Singh Dungarpur on Saturday attended a meeting of the office bearers of the Cricket Board as a special invitee for being a former president of the BCCI but not as the Cricket Club of India representative.
Others who attended the meeting, chaired by BCCI president Sharad Pawar, as special invitees were Arun Jaitley, I S Bindra, Farooq Abdullah and Prasun Mukherjee.
BCCI vice-presidents Chirayu Amin, Shashank Manohar, Lalit Modi and Dayanand Narvekar, joint secretary M P Pandove and treasurer N Srinivasan were also present at the meeting in Mumbai.
A media release issued on behalf of Dungarpur, facing allegations of irregularities committed by him during his 14-year reign as president of CCI, claimed that the BCCI had ignored CCI's communication barring its ex-chief from attending BCCI's meetings.
The BCCI "completely ignored the communication of CCI dated 29th August, 2007 barring Mr Raj Singh Dungarpur from attending the BCCI meeting" and invited the former BCCI chief as a special invitee to the meeting of the Board on Saturday, the release issued on behalf of Dungarpur said.
"BCCI did not invite Mr I M Kadri, the President, CCI, or any representative of the CCI to its meeting today totally disregarding the communication of CCI," it said.
Clarifying things BCCI's CEO Ratnakar Shetty said that "Mr Dungarpur was invited to attend the meeting of the office bearers today as one of its former presidents and not as the representative of the CCI."
