NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket board president Anurag Thakur took a pot shot at the Lodha committee by claiming a moral victory on the issue of freezing the bank accounts of the board. In a 'strongly-worded' letter addressed to board members, Thakur talks about how Justice Lodha had to appear on almost all TV news channels to put his point across of not freezing the BCCI bank accounts, when reality was something different."There was a talk of cancellation of ongoing India-New Zealand series in various newspaper and new channels, due to apparent freezing of bank accounts of BCCI by the band concerned under the orders of Lodha committee. When there was a public furore over this, Justice Lodha appeared on almost all TV channels and said that BCCI is misleading the public and that they never ordered freezing of BCCI accounts and ongoing Test series can continue," are the opening lines of Thakur's letter to the members of BCCI.He then clarified the chain of event that happened from the time the Lodha panel sent the email to the board officials and bank heads. Thakur also claimed that "the banks stopped transactions of BCCI on 4.10.16 by issuing letters to that effect". "When these reports came in the media, the Lodha committee clarified that bank accounts should be defreezed. The committee said only routine payments were to be permitted without specifying any guidelines on this. Even the banks asked the commission for guidelines but they have not been given. There is still a lot of confusion," Thakur said in the letter.Talking about the judgment of the office bearer's tenure, Thakur said: "The committee has chosen to apply the judgment retrospectively to the question of tenure of office bearers of BCCI. I fail to understand how there can be any pick and choose. If the report is to be binding it should be binding in totality and not in parts at the discretion of anybody."The BCCI boss also questioned the fund distribution as per the norm of the Lodha panel. "Another flip flop is that the committee states that no payment other than cricket matters is to be made. Payments to the state are also for cricket matters. There is no explanation by the committee for this. In response to the directive to not transfer funds and also the directive issues to the state associations not to deal with funds transferred by BCCI, many of you have written to suspend matches and postpone the cricket calenders."I am aware of the problems being faced by you for running of the cricket season with limited finances as a result of this directive. However, rest assured that BCCI will do everything possible to ensure that the money, which it holds in trust on behalf of the state association is released to them for their use. One fails to understand that if the money is of the state association, how BCCI can hold on to it," Thakur said while assuring the members that steps would be taken to keep the fight alive from BCCI's side.Thakur also raised the issue of threatening the applicants for the job of selectors through media, which TOI was first to report. "When BCCI tried to appoint selectors, various articles appeared based on sources in the Lodha committee that stated if the selectors apply then they will have adverse consequences. Many candidates didn't apply."Before he ended the letter, Thakur explained how the committee has been continuously threatening the board of issues along with the contempt of court notice and how BCCI has been courteously and respectful towards the committee while responding to its emails. "If the functioning of BCCI is hampered in this manner, it will surely spell the death knell of Indian cricket and of institution which is more than 87 years old," Thakur wrote before signing off.