N.Srinivasan, the tainted President of BCII whose son-in-law has been arrested for betting and suspected match fixing, brazenly roughshod the BCCI board and declared that he will not resign and the Board kept quiet meekly.
He also stated that the Board was with him , all of them!.
Who are the members of the BCCI and who forms the BCCI Working Committee?
List towards the end of the Post.
One might notice they belong to various Political Parties, some of them bitter enemies in Public.
Why haven’t they taken Srinivasan On?
1.Approaching Elections. Funds needed for all the parties.
2.Quid pro Quo.Every one of them have indulged in Corruption at some tie or another.
3.A quick look at he Franchisees will enlighten you who they are, what cases, corruption,charges were , are on them.
4. Lalith Modi Affair, many knots unraveled, skeletons may tumble if Srinivasan is touched.
5.Mumbai Big Wig Politician with Sports connection made slight noises ,though through his mouth piece and reversed it.
People know he can never be away when Sports Money is involved.
.The silence is deafening. Truly impressivepolitical heavy artillery, cutting across party lines, form the leading lights among BCCImembers. But they are proving to be duds. For, not one of them has publicly called for the resignation of N Srinivasan on moral grounds despite monumental evidence of him lying about the role of his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappanin Chennai Super Kings.
Among the 30 men who constitute the board that runs Indian cricket are two people – Narendra Modi and Farooq Abdullah — who either are or have been chief ministers of their state. Modi, in fact, has ambitions to lead the country. There are also several present and former Union ministers – Arun Jaitley, Rajeev Shukla, Jyotiraditya Scindia and C P Joshi. Then, there is Anurag Thakur, Lok Sabha MP whose father, Prem Kumar Dhumal, was CM of Himachal Pradesh. Ranjib Biswal is a former MP and his father, Basanta Kumar Biswal, was once deputy CM of Odisha.
In private, several of these worthies claim they have told or indicated to BCCI chief N Srinivasan that he should quit following his son-in-law’s arrest for allegedly being in league with bookies, but he has single-handedly defied them all. The question increasingly being asked in cricketing circles and elsewhere is – why are these seasoned politicians silent? Can’t they see that what’s at stake isn’t just a post but the faith of a billion Indians in cricket?
Three of the biggies listed – Modi, Jaitley and Thakur – are from the BJP. They were shouting from rooftops demanding the resignation of Pawan Kumar Bansal because his kin was found involved in shady deals and that of Ashwani Kumar for an impropriety in vetting and modifying a CBI report, but when it comes to Srinivasan, they are mum. Isn’t this double standards?
Sources:
http://www.bcci.tv/bcci/bccitv/index/workingcommittee
WORKING COMMITTEE
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