You want to take out Lalit Modi, you sweat it out. Keep the equity.
This ugly fight is not about cleaning up cricket, but covering it up completely
| New Delhi | April 21 2010
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You have to give it to the Congress. This party knows how to turn personal vendetta into a pious national mission.
Look at Mission Modi, for example. The whole party, many ministers and almost all the government's scary alphabets--IT, ED, DRI, IB, CLB, RAW--are out to get him, and the way things are going, get him they will.
I have no equity in IPL, neither do I know a branding beau from Dubai for Modi to sweat about me. So, I don't break a sweat over him either. Just like Modi couldn't care less how tough it is for me to sell a governance magazine to an IPL nation, I couldn't care less if, for his next assignment, he is sent to the Antarctic and asked to launch a version of the IPL there (which I suspect he will welcome considering how he loves to change/shift venues).
But when this Congress government makes it look like it's taking this Bad Boy down on my behalf, I have serious reservations. For one, I do not know how really bad this boy is, if he is indeed. For another I do not know if he is any, pardon the grammar, badder than the rest of the gang. For a third, I do not know the bossman, Sharad Pawar, is not as involved in all the murky stuff that Modi is supposed to be sitting on top of.
All I know is this: Modi got one of theirs (Shashi Tharoor), so they have to get Modi. That is fair game as long as they don't fire from the nation's shoulder. If national interest was at the the centre of all this frenetic activity, all the generous leaks about all the slush funds in IPL would have happened six months ago when the IT department is supposed to have prepared a dossier on IPL. Perhaps then a certain very morally and ethically correct minister would not have dared gift Rs 70 crore of other people's money to his friend.
I also know something else that will stop me from celebrating the fall of Modi as the ultimate clean up of the Augean stables of Indian cricket. That fall will not be the clean up that we want, it will be the cover-up that all the politicians of all the parties who are on the BCCI, want and will get.
I don't want to lend my shoulder for this fight. You want to take out Modi, you sweat it out. And, yes, keep the equity.
Anonymous, you're a blind imbecile. I didn't say that it was Tharoor who is a sleazebag. Do read my comment with more precision of vision and thought, if you can.
On the other hand, I do agree with you that "Tharoor got a raw deal" and that that "asswipe [sic!] Modi" didn't. But Tharoor not only left himself open to attrition, he practically invited it by blundering around like a bull in a china shop. And, yes, I also agree that BV Rao needs to focus more on Modi's shenanigans and less on the realpolitik of putting him in his place - in the middle of a desert with no clothes, no contacts, no phones and no banks.
I agree with you, BVR, but we musn't forget to thank Modi for allowing the s*** to hit the fan.
And it should not be http://supporttharoor.org/ but supporttharoor.COM..... :D
Btw did anyone visit http://supporttharoor.org/ ???????
OMG!!!
Everyone knows, and everyone remembers, and everyone expects congress to make a national issue our of personal (or party, or gandhi family) vendetta. Yet we go ahead and elect them, time & time again. And again! Guess whose the douche? The entire nation.
Or may be just so because of lack of better options. But guess what "better" options have to come from within us. Do not expect another Italian to come running and taking the reigns of this mocked-docked-socked "largest" democracy!
(for the record, i am not the anonymous who has posted the previous comments!)
bvrao, my last comment was directed at Mansolaris ... however, I still think Tharoor got a raw deal, while the asswipe Modi is still scott free and being looked at as a "fighter." So was Himmler. So was Franco. So were every single disgusting "historical" figure out there. Shouldn't we learn from the mistakes, so the mistakes don't happen again. You expect that from you kids right?
You better start following Modi and reporting his dealings and benami monies. Else you are just another yellow journalist to me...
@Mansolaris please do elaborate on the sleazebaggery of Tharoor. If these shenanigans are so well documented, please do share. I would love to know these shenanigans you seem to have such great information about, while the rest of the world doesn't. You know, my great aunt saw a UFO too.
C'mon man stop being such a douche and actually contribute to a conversation. Please stop being a moron.
dear anonymous,
thanks for your time and comments. respect your opinion and no i don't think you are a moron.
rao
Could not agree more with the author. All these people are giving an impression as if with this they will not only root corruption out of IPL but the whole of India, where clearly all they want to do is bury Modi and with that all their own dirt too. And Wow! As I am reading this I am also hearing news on TV that the IPL franchises do not want Shashank Manohar as the IPL Commisioner. They want to nominate their 'own' people to the IPL governing council and one of these nominated people to become commissioner on a rotating basis! I mean what ingenuity! That will be like the perfect cover up!
Big holes in your theory.
Modi didn't take our Tharoor. Tharoor took our Tharoor. Even going by your argument, since the Congress itself has been wanting to take out Tharoor for a while now, why would it expend itself so massively on taking out Modi?
And why write an apologia for Modi? The man's been a notable sleazeball for a long time, all his shenanigans documented.
Come on, man, I expected more reason and circumspection out of you.
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