The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary has refused to sign on the appointment letter of newly-appointed General Manager (Marketing) Priya Gupta.  According to reports, Choudhury has questioned Gupta's lack of experience in handling such a high-profile job. Choudhury has sent an email to BCCI CEO, Rahul Johri, and copied to the Committee of Administrators (CoA) and other BCCI officials and have mentioned the hugely controversial ' Slut-slaming Deepika Padukone' articles. He further questioned, BCCI’s selection process that involved recruitment firm Korn Ferry.

Citing the hugely controversial Times of India article written by Gupta about actress Deepika Padukone, Choudhary has refused to sign the appointment letter. The articles refer to the controversy that started after Times of India had tweeted a Deepika Padukone video with the caption “OMG! Deepika Padukone’s cleavage show”. To this, Deepika had responded with: “YES! I am a Woman. I have breasts AND a cleavage! You got a problem!!??”.

Reportedly, Gupta in her defense had responded to Deepika and her statement was, “Dear Deepika, our point of view…” where she wrote: “Deepika, just for the record, we do not zoom into a woman’s vagina or show her nipples… What about all the times, and there have been many, when you have flaunted your body off screen — while dancing on stage, posing for magazine covers, or doing photo ops at movie promotional functions? What ‘role’ do you play there? So why the hypocrisy?”

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