Kolkata: East Bengal lambasted the AIFF’s move to revoke the ban on Mohun Bagan on Tuesday, with the club’s general secretary Kalyan Majumdar hinting at “under-table dealings” to arrive at the decision.
Reacting sharply to the lifting of ban on Bagan, Majumdar raised questions on how a two-year ban could be revoked for just a Rs 2 crore fine.
“I want to know what had happened. I doubt and feel that there must be some under-table dealings,” Majumdar said.
“It’s very sad yet true that Indian football is going to the nadir under the current dispensation of the AIFF,” he said.
Majumdar questioned why retired Supreme Court Justice AK Ganguly was appointed in the first place to find out if Mohun Bagan violated rules if his decision was to be reversed later.
“Where was the justice? The verdict by honourable former SC justice Ganguly has been thrown aside.
“We all know that the ban was given under the Clause 22 (a) of the AIFF but now we want to know under which provision this has been waived.
“I want to know the rule and the clause,” he said.
“Lifting the ban means Mohun Bagan have been exonerated.”
Majumdar said his club would protest against the the AIFF’s decision in the proper platform. “We will raise this issue vociferously but the point is whether it would be heard or fall on deaf ears,” he said. (PTI)