IPL – Victim of Politics
Lalit Modi is shifting the IPL – a big money spinner to either UK or South Africa – this is the compromise formula worked out by the IPL in conjunction with the BCCI, as the various state governments where the matches were to be held have refused to provide security to the event. After working around with various permutations and combinations the IPL eventually decided to have a truncated tournament and shifted quite a few matches to Maharashtra on the assurance that security would be provided. In the meanwhile, with the national elections round the corner, Sharad Pawar voiced his aspirations for Prime Ministership and the seat sharing formula with the Congress in Maharashtra came under pressure. Ashok Chavan who, whether you like it or not, is the proxy for Vilasrao Deshmukh who continues to do a Rabri with Ashok as Laloo did in Bihar with his wife. Also the UPA seems to be losing the ‘U’ in the acronym with various allies flexing their muscles and going their own separate ways. The u...