Pramod Thomas » IPL http://www.pramodthomas.com My Personal blog ... Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:26:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Why I hate IPL http://www.pramodthomas.com/2010/04/why-i-hate-ipl/ http://www.pramodthomas.com/2010/04/why-i-hate-ipl/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:18:59 +0000 Pramod Thomas http://www.pramodthomas.com/?p=564
Wikipedia describes Lalit Modi “was born in a wealthy and successful business family”. IPL is the business edition of cricket in India. I hate IPL for the main reason that it kills my interest in cricket. IPL=money+girls. This money is ‘black money’. Bollywood is notorious for it’s connections with underworld. All Bollywood stars are in IPL. Some outdated!.IPL is a stage to regain their lost popularity.  So IPL is mainly a million dollar business, which will never be beneficial for cricket.
Lalit Modi has been described as a good leader so far. Now everyone wants him to quit. There are bundles of black money involved in IPL. IPL is not healthy for a poor country like India. Year long celebration is not always good for any sport. Recent Tharoor chapter proves that there are something fishing in IPL.
Now Tharoor has resigned. Lalit Modi should be sacked. And proper inquiry should be done to find out the facts about IPL. Earlier they said that more and more players will get chance to play. But now it proved false. IPL should be stopped.

Facts about Lalit Kumar Modi (source wikipedia)
Born :    November 29, 1963 (1963-11-29) (age 46)
New Delhi, India
Occupation :    Businessman, Commissioner of the IPL and Vice President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Known for:     Creating and managing the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament.
Children :    Karima Burman[1], Aliya Modi and Ruchir Modi[2]

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If I have a stand in the Tharoor controversy, it is he should resign. The only backing now the minister gets is from the prime minister himself. Tharoor is a great intellectual. But we Indians are very much common people. He is an MP from kerala, earlier we were all proud of him. The selection of his book name ‘The great Indian novel’ itself was a masterpiece.
Now in the UPA ministry Tharoor is the most controversial minister. Since he assumed office his image revolves around controversies. It is better for him to quit now. Twice he has been caught on his remarks in twitter. His cattle class remark was the ugliest one. Earlier he stayed in five star hotels (what a pity majority of Indians are homeless). India don’t need such posh ministers.
Personally I don’t admire the IPL way of cricket. It kills my interest in the game. Kerala gets an IPL team is a great news to me. But Lalit Modi himself says that Tharoor has hidden agendas. I doubt so. Being an upper class lad Tharoor’s intention will be business and money. (Now IPL is the best way). Tharoor should quit and face enquiry. Proper checking of Tharoor’s assets should be done. How long congress and PM can back such a worst minister? Apart from that proper accounting of IPL should also be done. IPL is pure business not cricket.
There are more dark clouds. Who is this Sunanda Pushkar? What is her connection with the minister? Nothing is clear at present. Tharoor’s over enthusiasm proves that there are something fishing.  Sunanda repeatedly says that she has been attacked by the media. If she has not done anything wrong why she fears anyone? Questions are many but we get few answers….
Tharoor should quit, the sooner the better!!

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