Former BCCI president Shashank Manohar has criticised N Srinivasan, saying the latter has no right to continue as the chief of the board in the aftermath of alleged corruption in the IPL. Manohar also stated that a few members of the board, including Jagmohan Dalmiya, had asked him to contest the election for the post of the BCCI president at the board's annual general meeting on September 29.

"Srinivasan has no right to continue as president," Manohar told Mumbai Mirror. "If you had the slightest of conscience, self-esteem and care for the board, you ought to have put in your papers the moment your son-in-law was arrested. You did nothing and, as a result, the board's reputation has taken a hit to the extent that the people have lost faith in this board."

Manohar, who was the BCCI chief between 2008 and 2011, said certain members had requested him to contest against Srinivasan. The current president, however, was re-elected unopposed for an extended tenure.

"Many people, including Mr Dalmiya, requested me to come back and contest," Manohar said. "I left the board two years back and I have not entered its premises again. I have no intention to come back. I said if all the members want me, I will not shirk the responsibility. This board has given me a lot and I was willing to give something back."

Terming Srinivasan as an "autocrat", Manohar said that the BCCI president had no intention of cleaning up the board and had "damaged" the reputation of the organisation within a span of a few months.

"He is trying to shield everybody, his team included," Manohar said. "He does not want to clean this mess. If my son was in Srinivasan's position, I would have asked him to resign. Srinivasan is an autocrat and wants all the power for himself. He told the media that his son-in-law was just 'an enthusiast'. His counsel argued before the courts that Srinivasan did not choose his son-in-law but his daughter did. It is laughable. A person who cannot defend his family member has no right to say he will take responsibility of the board."

Manohar said that there was evidence to prove Gurunath Meiyappan's role in Chennai Super Kings: "There is a lot of evidence of Meiyappan being the team principal. The truth will come out. I don't have to state this. It is a fact. He has been chargesheeted and the law will take its own course, but the evidence is very much there."

BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel declined to comment on the board's behalf on Thursday on Manohar's remarks and said running the board is a "collective responsibility" of all the office bearers.

"I have not gone through the [news] report but some media friends have told me and I was busy right through the morning," Patel said. "I would like to say nothing more than that but any ex-BCCI officer, before making any remarks about the colleagues on the board, should have considered that BCCI is running with [the help of] all the office bearers. My personal view is that it is always the collective responsibility of all office bearers. One cannot absolve himself by leaving aside the others. I don't know much in detail about the issue but that is the only thing I can say."