Last year when the Indian Premier League started with a lot of fanfare, Lalit Modi was the toast of the nation. He was destiny's child who could do nothing wrong. He was rubbing his shoulders and god knows what else with the creme-de-la-creme of India's business and glamour circles.
The League which had started after a lot of politics and a knee jerk reaction to Subhash Chandra's ICL. While the IPL turned out to be a success due to the heady combination of cricket, glamour and power, ICL did not achieve much success due to lack of the above three ingredients. BCCI also has tried to kill competition by banning players involved with ICL and barring them from playing any form of official cricket.
But the tables have turned in less than 12 months. The UPA government is not confident that they can have such a big event at the time of the elections. My friends say the government is scared that if the Indian junta is watching 20-20 cricket then who will listen to their election manifestos. Crazy as they may be, the politicians still need drive their points, pointless as they may be.
The BJP accuses that the congress is targeting the IPL. They say that "a government, which cannot provide protection to 11 players, cannot be entrusted with the task of country’s security". My question is that if the congress had actually allowed the IPL to happen at this time then the same people would have alleged that the Congress is ignoring the security of the citizens of the country and compromising national security for commercial reasons. It is definitely a Catch-22 situation. But I am not defending anybody...Its just that we as a country have just got used to criticise others for everything, for any initiative or maybe politicising anything and everything. When the government can claim the success of Slumdog as their then Danny will definitely "Boil".
As of now when I am writing this article there is speculation that South Africa or England might be the alternative venues for this year. Whatever happens from here, one thing is for sure ...renaming IPL to the Indian Political League would not be such a bad idea..:)
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Though not a big cricket fan as yours, I too am sad for the IPL thing. The indentity of IPL is under threat if it scheduled outisde India.
I would rename it as ,
" IPL = Indian Political Lafda"
Jai Ho - Politicians
What goes up, always comes down... and what goes to alarming altitudes at such great speed is to crash down in a horrendous fall!The glamour and success of IPL has led to its downfall.
My thoughts on the same... Agar IPL owners ke paas itna pagal-paisa hai jo players ko millions de rahe ho, then why can they not appoint a private security agency for the players?
Well written dude.
Yes, BJP's just hoping to win this time round (inspite of having no emphatic PM candidate). They have obviously to hold on to the catch(-22) to win the match!
As far as IPL goes, the tournament is going to be a hit, wherever it happens. I can just say that the politicians are doing their job ;)
IPL (both the full forms) are goiing to be the flavors of the upcoming months.
Agree with you! Wherever there is money and power involved, politics cannot be left behind!
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