The Centre entered the BCCI’s legal battle against cricketing reform panel as it asked the Supreme Court to withdraw Lodha Committee recommendations objecting to the bar on appointment of government servants and ministers as members of the Indian cricket board. Arguing for railway ministry, armed forces and cricket associations of universities that have been downgraded by the Lodha panel by taking away their voting rights, attorney general of India Mukul Rohatgi said that cricketing reforms needed a bigger debate and sought the matter to be referred to a larger bench.