Three BCB directors resigned within hours of each other following a marathon board meeting in Dhaka on Saturday: Faiazur Rahman informed the board of his decision shortly after the meeting, while Shanian Taneem and Mehrab Alam Chowdhury did the same not long after. That takes the tally of board directors to have stepped down in under six months of the BCB elections to six.
Earlier, Ishtiaque Sadeque was the first to resign in January this year, citing personal reasons. Last month, Amzad Hossain sent his notice to the board a couple of days after he was removed as the media chairman. Yasir Mohammed Faysal, who was a government-nominated BCB director, left on Thursday, followed by the three on Saturday.
It was not immediately clear what had happened in the meeting – chaired by president Aminul Islam with vice-president Faruque Ahmed, who is unwell, joining online – to warrant the decision taken by Faiazur, Taneem and Chowdhury.
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After the meeting, the new media chairman Mohammad Mokhsedul Kamal said in a press briefing that he had become aware of Faiazur’s resignation from the news. The other two quit after the press briefing was held.
“We haven’t discussed this at the board. Those who resigned cited personal reasons for their decision,” Kamal said. “It is their personal decision. The one you are mentioning [Faiazur], he attended the meeting with us. We heard the news that he resigned after the meeting.”
Faiazur, who was the vice-chairman of Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis, the BCB committee that runs the Dhaka leagues, recently criticised the BCB’s lack of initiative to run the leagues properly.
Six resignations in under six months is a significant number anyway, and especially for a board where elected board directors hold on to their position for full terms. Three of them resigning on the same evening is even more alarming given the overall atmosphere around the BCB: the government is currently investigating the BCB’s elections, held in October last year, via a committee, which is likely to submit its report to the sports ministry next week.
Sports minister Aminul Haque has also said that he wanted to appoint a committee to investigate why Bangladesh didn’t participate in the last T20 World Cup, held in India and Sri Lanka earlier this year. At a parliament session last week, Haque said he also wanted to find out about allegations of political favouritism in the BCB.