With Mohun Bagan General Secretary Anjan Mitra leaving for abroad for office work today, the club will take up the reply by captain Baichung Bhutia only at the working committee meeting after his return later.
With Mohun Bagan General Secretary Anjan Mitra leaving for abroad for office work today, the club will take up the reply by captain Baichung Bhutia only at the working committee meeting after his return later.
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Informing that he was yet to open the sealed envelop, Mitra, who was out of station for some time and again left for abroad after returning here last night, said he would have to first see the contents after return and the same would be placed at the working committee meeting of the club thereafter.
Club sources said the meeting is likely to take a decision on this issue.
Bagan served a show cause notice on Baichung on May 14 accusing of not showing full commitment to their I-league campaign and skipping practice sessions repeatedly to shoot for a dance programme.
"It is evident that your focus has shifted from football and it has now become your secondary interest," Mitra wrote in his letter.
Not initially giving any reply, Baichung served quit notice to the club and told media persons he had no longer any desire to turn up for Bagan after what happened and argued he did not have to prove his commitment after playing for 17-18 years on maidan and elsewhere.
"From the day one the club was aware of my programme. I had been absent in practice only on Saturdays but never missed a match," the nimble-footed striker had stated at the media briefing.
While Baichung subsequently sent a reply to the show cause notice, sources close to the Indian captain said his reply contains mostly what he had already told the media.
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