he much-awaited elections of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have been rescheduled by a day to October 23 in the wake of Assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra, the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) said on Tuesday.

Both the states will be voting on October 21 in a single-phase elections and to ensure that voter members from the two units are not inconvenienced, the BCCI annual general meeting, which was to be held on October 22, has been postponed by a day.

The CoA, headed by chairman Vinod Rai, has also pushed back the date by which state associations will need to conduct their elections — from September 28 to October 4.

“... Further, in order to facilitate and secure compliance by various State Associations and for conduct of elections in the member State Associations in accordance with the (Supreme Court) judgment dated 18th July 2016 and 9th August, 2018 and any further order and judgement that the Hon’ble Supreme Court may be pleased to pass, the CoA hereby extends the date for completion of election by member State Associations to 4th October, 2019,” the CoA said in a statement.

The CoA also directed the state associations to “not re-amend their constitutions” which were already approved by them.

“The member State Associations are also directed to conduct the elections in accordance with the constitution approved by the CoA in terms of the order of the Hon’ble Supreme Court dated 9th August, 2018 and the relaxation granted by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in its order dated 20th September, 2019,” the statement read.

The CoA also said that state units will run the risk of their election results being not recognised if they don’t adhere to the BCCI constitution.

The CoA, in its petition to the apex court, has submitted the status of compliance of 38 state units of BCCI.

There are 24 full members, who have registered their respective constitutions as per CoA’s approval.

Three members — Railways, Services and Universities — will have an authorised representative as per the BCCI constitution.

The CoA has also informed the court that seven full members have had their constitution approved by it but have not yet submitted the document. Two members are on their way to compliance. According to the CoA, only two members, Haryana and Tamil Nadu are “not compliant .”

Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) will go to polls on Thursday and had amended their constitution at an executive committee meeting on Sunday. “We will soon be sending the constitution to CoA for approval,” a senior TNCA member said.