Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday asked the BCCI as to why cricketers like Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri or Ajit Wadekar, all Mumbaikars, were not considered to replace ousted IPL commissioner Lalit Modi.
He also questioned the logic behind his old friend Sharad Pawar making Modi IPL chief despite his "shady past."
'Modi has been replaced by another big shot industrialist....(BCCI chief Shashank) Manohar should be asked why names of Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri or Ajit Wadekar were not considered for the post,' he said in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamna'.
Thackeray also asked as to why "Pawar and others handed over IPL reins to Modi despite his shady past."
"Pawar is a minister in the Union cabinet and his party rules Maharashtra. Despite having police and intelligence agencies at their disposal, did they fail to know the shady past of Modi?" Thackeray said.
"The decision to hand over reins of IPL, which rakes in thousands of crores, to such a person is dubious," he alleged.
He said Manohar could have suspended Modi much earlier. "Manohar says the whole world knew about IPL dealings but the Governing Council was kept in the dark," he said.
MNS carbon copy of Shiv Sena: Thackeray
Mumbai: Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray has equated nephew Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena with a carbon copy of the outfit he founded in 1966.
"A lot of duplicates have come up...maybe with my blessings. They copy whatever I say. That is their agenda. They look like carbon copy of Shiv Sena before people," Thackeray said, without naming MNS or Raj Thackeray.
"I had said in my speech at the first public meeting of Sena on October 22, 1966 that there should be a permit system to stop the hordes of migrants to Mumbai," Thackeray said, in an interview published in party mouthpiece 'Saamana' today.
Thackeray said Marathi people should not refer to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus as CST. "Call the station by its full name," he said. Mumbai belongs to Marathi people and will continue to remain a part of Maharashtra, the Sena Chief said.
Thackeray flayed late Morarji Desai for ordering firing on agitators demanding a samyukta (united) Maharashtra. It was Gandhiji's fortune that he did not meet Desai, or else he would have committed suicide before Godse killed him, Thackeray said.
Source: Agencies
K.Venugopal
#1
Wednesday, 28 April 2010 19:18:01
Why just a Mumbai lobby, Thackeray Saab? Why not have the Shiv Sena control IPL and have Aditya Thackeray as IPL Commissioner?
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3867352
He also questioned the logic behind his old friend Sharad Pawar making Modi IPL chief despite his "shady past."
'Modi has been replaced by another big shot industrialist....(BCCI chief Shashank) Manohar should be asked why names of Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri or Ajit Wadekar were not considered for the post,' he said in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamna'.
Thackeray also asked as to why "Pawar and others handed over IPL reins to Modi despite his shady past."
"Pawar is a minister in the Union cabinet and his party rules Maharashtra. Despite having police and intelligence agencies at their disposal, did they fail to know the shady past of Modi?" Thackeray said.
"The decision to hand over reins of IPL, which rakes in thousands of crores, to such a person is dubious," he alleged.
He said Manohar could have suspended Modi much earlier. "Manohar says the whole world knew about IPL dealings but the Governing Council was kept in the dark," he said.
MNS carbon copy of Shiv Sena: Thackeray
Mumbai: Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray has equated nephew Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena with a carbon copy of the outfit he founded in 1966.
"A lot of duplicates have come up...maybe with my blessings. They copy whatever I say. That is their agenda. They look like carbon copy of Shiv Sena before people," Thackeray said, without naming MNS or Raj Thackeray.
"I had said in my speech at the first public meeting of Sena on October 22, 1966 that there should be a permit system to stop the hordes of migrants to Mumbai," Thackeray said, in an interview published in party mouthpiece 'Saamana' today.
Thackeray said Marathi people should not refer to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus as CST. "Call the station by its full name," he said. Mumbai belongs to Marathi people and will continue to remain a part of Maharashtra, the Sena Chief said.
Thackeray flayed late Morarji Desai for ordering firing on agitators demanding a samyukta (united) Maharashtra. It was Gandhiji's fortune that he did not meet Desai, or else he would have committed suicide before Godse killed him, Thackeray said.
Source: Agencies
K.Venugopal
#1
Wednesday, 28 April 2010 19:18:01
Why just a Mumbai lobby, Thackeray Saab? Why not have the Shiv Sena control IPL and have Aditya Thackeray as IPL Commissioner?
http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3867352
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