New Delhi, April 21
Beleaguered IPL commissioner Lalit Modi appears set for a full-scale confrontation with the Board of Control for Cricket in India as he has questioned the legality of the Governing Council meeting on Monday and threatened to disclose the stake-holding pattern of the teams in the league.

Under pressure to quit, a defiant Modi told the BCCI that the proposed meeting to consider his future was “illegal” and that only he had the powers to call such a meeting. He wanted the Governing Council meeting to be convened on May 1.

However, the BCCI is going ahead with the Monday deliberations, saying that its secretary was fully empowered to convene the meeting, which may even oust him in his absence.

Notably, the BCCI has veered round to the view that to protect its "clean image", it has become imperative for the Board to sacrifice Modi, though the IPL commissioner and chairman still enjoys tacit support among a section of the Board members.

BCCI media and finance committee chairman Rajiv Shukla said: “If the situation demands tough decisions, they will be taken when the IPL Governing Council meets on April 26.” He said whatever decisions taken at the IPL

Governing Council would be unanimous as “these decisions would be in the interest of cricket and the BCCI”, adding if it comes to the worst, the Board was prepared to take harsh decisions.

The BCCI also disapproved of his plans to disclose the details of share-holding of the team owners on the ground that it was a complex issue that needed to be considered in detail.

In a communication to BCCI president Shashank Manohar today, Modi said “till post-26th he does not propose to attend any unauthorised meeting”. Disagreeing with him on convening of the Governing Council meeting on Monday, Modi said the BCCI secretary has never called a council meeting since inception nor is he the convenor. “He is only an ex-officio member of the GC as an office-bearer of BCCI and as he is a conflicted party who owns an IPL team, he can never call a GC meeting,” he said.

Modi said if the meeting does take place on April 26, instead of May 1, as asked by him, it will be deemed to be unofficial. He made it clear that he was not against the meeting but he wanted time to prepare the agenda, circulate it and also make documents available.

Meanwhile, GMR Holdings, the franchisee of Delhi Daredevils, came out with their shareholding pattern disclosing that GMR Sports Ltd, a subsidiary of GMR Holdings Private Ltd, held 51 per cent of the share capital.