20/04/2010
New Delhi: Keeping pace with the T20 format, the IPL off-field saga of murk and intrigue got a new dose of pace and spin on Tuesday when Union Minister and former BCCI chief Sharad Pawar had a two hour meeting with BCCI president Shashank Manohar in Delhi, following which IPL commissioner Lalit Modi was asked to rush to Delhi.
Modi is currently in Dubai attending the International Cricket Council meeting.
Pawar's meeting with Shashank came after he had a prolonged discussion with his senior cabinet colleagues Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram. Both Pranab and Chidambaram have no love lost for Modi.
Sources said that a final call has been taken on ousting Lalit Modi from the IPL chairmanship. The only question is whether Modi will be asked to step down immediately or after the IPL finals on April 25.
A red-faced Congress wants immediate action against for putting the party and one of its ministers in an embarrassing position.
After the two crucial meetings, Pawar told newsmen here that the BCCI governing council will meet and examine all the facts and cases concerning the IPL commissioners and then take a unanimous decision. Sources indicated that the `unanimous decision' has already been taken and that the resolution against Modi is a mere formality and that he will either have to step down or face the boot.
Earlier, the IPL had another spin when Pawar's daughter and Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule's name figured on the radar. Her husband's name was being mentioned. Though Supriya denied any links, the damage seems to have rattled Pawar as the IPL muck neared his doorstep.
It is obvious that the knives are out against Lalit Modi. Some senior Indian cricket board officials who are at loggerheads with Modi over the autocratic way he is running the affairs of the Indian Premier League (IPL) are planning to ease him out, say well placed sources.
After the new IPL franchise Kochi has thrown up the murkier side of the auctioning of the city teams, leading to its "mentor" and minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor's exit from the council of ministers, and demands in parliament for a probe into the alleged betting and money-laundering in the Twenty20 tournament, Modi appears to have been boxed into a corner.
If some of Modi's opponents have their way they will attack him at the IPL governing council meeting on April 25 when he is expected to explain his side of the Kochi imbroglio.
"After what union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said about the IPL and seeing the MPs' anger, propriety demands that Modi should go, at least till he gets his name cleared," a cricket board member told IANS not wanting to be named.
The BCCI officials are unhappy that its fair name has been besmirched by the high-profile Modi who they say has become a law unto himself, running the IPL as a "cosy independent island."
Modi, who has been deputed by BCCI president Shashank Manohar to attend the ongoing International Cricket Council (ICC) meeting in Dubai, is expected to return late Tuesday.
He and his supporters are taking the stand that the IPL general council has been created through a special resolution of the board's special general meeting and it has a term of five years. So, the general council has no powers to ask him to go.
"Modi is busy running the IPL, which is coming to the business end of the third edition. He will reply to all the allegations once he is free from his work," an official close to him told IANS.
The governing council members are divided on the issue with a couple of them staying neutral. Most members look up to union minister and Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar, and he is, as of now, in Modi corner.
The board officials are livid with the Kochi happenings and they are finding ways to get rid of Modi. Strictly, he does not represent any state association in the board after being thrown out of the Rajasthan Cricket Association and he attends the board meetings as IPL chairman.
The top board officials are expected to meet IPL franchise owners in Mumbai Friday before the IPL general council meeting and Modi may be kept out of it.
The meeting is expected to decide the fate of Modi and he might even be asked to quit and if he resists taking refuge under technicalities, the board is preparing to call a special general meeting to oust him.
The board's working committee will meet on May 2 to initiate steps to remove Modi from the IPL. The two known opponents of Modi, BCCI President Shashank Manohar and secretary N. Srinivasan, may move a resolution that could either drastically reduce Modi's unbridled powers in the IPL, or could even get rid of him altogether.
The Friday meeting will threadbare discuss all the allegation levelled against Modi, the Kochi affair in particular.
"All the allegations against Modi and some other issues would be discussed in the governing council," said Rajiv Shukla, the BCCI's media and finance committee chairman, in Delhi.
The governing council members are the four BCCI office-bearers, president, secretary N. Srinivasan, treasurer M.P. Pandove and joint secretary Sanjay Jagdale, former board president Inderjit Singh Bindra, union minister and president of Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association Farooq Abdullah, board vice-president and Delhi and District Cricket Association president Arun Jaitley, board vice-president and president of Baroda association Chirayu Amin, chairman of board's finance and media committee Rajiv Shukla and three former India captains Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri, besides Modi.
The IPL has turned out to be a major a money-spinner. The eight franchises, sold in a globally televised auction, fetched $640.9 million. The two new franchises added this year made it look like chicken feed as they went for $726.6 million. The television rights were sold for $1 billion for 10 years and this year YoutTube and multiplexes bought the rights to screen the matches live to take the earning to a mind-boggling $4.13 billion.
Source: India Syndicate and IANS
K.Venugopal
#2
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:28:08
This is a monstrous misuse of power by the Congress after one of its Ministers have been caught red handed in seeking to make a fast buck by the fearless Lalit Modi. Now the Congress has also brought Sharad Pawer on board with insinuation that his son-in-law also sought to get sweat equity from IPL franchise bid. The Congress is bidding to sink the IPL ship under the able stewardship of Lalit Modi and all the coward rats, terrorized by Congress, are abandoning the ship to swim to a new IPL ship run by a chosen Congress crony. But Lalit Mody is no baby born yesterday. He must surely be in the know of the corrupt ways of the Congress cronies in BCCI. He must be ready to expose them. The congress fascist tendency must be challenged.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3843758&page=0
New Delhi: Keeping pace with the T20 format, the IPL off-field saga of murk and intrigue got a new dose of pace and spin on Tuesday when Union Minister and former BCCI chief Sharad Pawar had a two hour meeting with BCCI president Shashank Manohar in Delhi, following which IPL commissioner Lalit Modi was asked to rush to Delhi.
Modi is currently in Dubai attending the International Cricket Council meeting.
Pawar's meeting with Shashank came after he had a prolonged discussion with his senior cabinet colleagues Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister P Chidambaram. Both Pranab and Chidambaram have no love lost for Modi.
Sources said that a final call has been taken on ousting Lalit Modi from the IPL chairmanship. The only question is whether Modi will be asked to step down immediately or after the IPL finals on April 25.
A red-faced Congress wants immediate action against for putting the party and one of its ministers in an embarrassing position.
After the two crucial meetings, Pawar told newsmen here that the BCCI governing council will meet and examine all the facts and cases concerning the IPL commissioners and then take a unanimous decision. Sources indicated that the `unanimous decision' has already been taken and that the resolution against Modi is a mere formality and that he will either have to step down or face the boot.
Earlier, the IPL had another spin when Pawar's daughter and Lok Sabha member Supriya Sule's name figured on the radar. Her husband's name was being mentioned. Though Supriya denied any links, the damage seems to have rattled Pawar as the IPL muck neared his doorstep.
It is obvious that the knives are out against Lalit Modi. Some senior Indian cricket board officials who are at loggerheads with Modi over the autocratic way he is running the affairs of the Indian Premier League (IPL) are planning to ease him out, say well placed sources.
After the new IPL franchise Kochi has thrown up the murkier side of the auctioning of the city teams, leading to its "mentor" and minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor's exit from the council of ministers, and demands in parliament for a probe into the alleged betting and money-laundering in the Twenty20 tournament, Modi appears to have been boxed into a corner.
If some of Modi's opponents have their way they will attack him at the IPL governing council meeting on April 25 when he is expected to explain his side of the Kochi imbroglio.
"After what union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said about the IPL and seeing the MPs' anger, propriety demands that Modi should go, at least till he gets his name cleared," a cricket board member told IANS not wanting to be named.
The BCCI officials are unhappy that its fair name has been besmirched by the high-profile Modi who they say has become a law unto himself, running the IPL as a "cosy independent island."
Modi, who has been deputed by BCCI president Shashank Manohar to attend the ongoing International Cricket Council (ICC) meeting in Dubai, is expected to return late Tuesday.
He and his supporters are taking the stand that the IPL general council has been created through a special resolution of the board's special general meeting and it has a term of five years. So, the general council has no powers to ask him to go.
"Modi is busy running the IPL, which is coming to the business end of the third edition. He will reply to all the allegations once he is free from his work," an official close to him told IANS.
The governing council members are divided on the issue with a couple of them staying neutral. Most members look up to union minister and Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar, and he is, as of now, in Modi corner.
The board officials are livid with the Kochi happenings and they are finding ways to get rid of Modi. Strictly, he does not represent any state association in the board after being thrown out of the Rajasthan Cricket Association and he attends the board meetings as IPL chairman.
The top board officials are expected to meet IPL franchise owners in Mumbai Friday before the IPL general council meeting and Modi may be kept out of it.
The meeting is expected to decide the fate of Modi and he might even be asked to quit and if he resists taking refuge under technicalities, the board is preparing to call a special general meeting to oust him.
The board's working committee will meet on May 2 to initiate steps to remove Modi from the IPL. The two known opponents of Modi, BCCI President Shashank Manohar and secretary N. Srinivasan, may move a resolution that could either drastically reduce Modi's unbridled powers in the IPL, or could even get rid of him altogether.
The Friday meeting will threadbare discuss all the allegation levelled against Modi, the Kochi affair in particular.
"All the allegations against Modi and some other issues would be discussed in the governing council," said Rajiv Shukla, the BCCI's media and finance committee chairman, in Delhi.
The governing council members are the four BCCI office-bearers, president, secretary N. Srinivasan, treasurer M.P. Pandove and joint secretary Sanjay Jagdale, former board president Inderjit Singh Bindra, union minister and president of Jammu & Kashmir Cricket Association Farooq Abdullah, board vice-president and Delhi and District Cricket Association president Arun Jaitley, board vice-president and president of Baroda association Chirayu Amin, chairman of board's finance and media committee Rajiv Shukla and three former India captains Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri, besides Modi.
The IPL has turned out to be a major a money-spinner. The eight franchises, sold in a globally televised auction, fetched $640.9 million. The two new franchises added this year made it look like chicken feed as they went for $726.6 million. The television rights were sold for $1 billion for 10 years and this year YoutTube and multiplexes bought the rights to screen the matches live to take the earning to a mind-boggling $4.13 billion.
Source: India Syndicate and IANS
K.Venugopal
#2
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:28:08
This is a monstrous misuse of power by the Congress after one of its Ministers have been caught red handed in seeking to make a fast buck by the fearless Lalit Modi. Now the Congress has also brought Sharad Pawer on board with insinuation that his son-in-law also sought to get sweat equity from IPL franchise bid. The Congress is bidding to sink the IPL ship under the able stewardship of Lalit Modi and all the coward rats, terrorized by Congress, are abandoning the ship to swim to a new IPL ship run by a chosen Congress crony. But Lalit Mody is no baby born yesterday. He must surely be in the know of the corrupt ways of the Congress cronies in BCCI. He must be ready to expose them. The congress fascist tendency must be challenged.
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3843758&page=0
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