THE BELATED PURGE MUST NOT END WITH MODI'S EXIT ALONE. AFTER ALL, HE IS THE BCCI'S OWN PATENTED FRANKENSTEIN, SAYS SANJAY JHA IN THE LATEST TEHELKA MAGAZINE, VOL 7, Issue 17, Dated May 01, 2010. Please click here to read the full article. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main44.asp?filename=Op010510doomed_to.asp … [Read more...]
Tax officials claim ‘evidence’ against Kolkata Knight Riders
April 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Courtesy : The Times of India Group (We really do like Shah Rukh Khan but will the high profile company which he kept in much public spotlight during IPL land him in trouble?) KOLKATA: Tax officials who conducted search operations at the offices of the Bengal Cricket Association and Shah Rukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders till the early hours of Thursday here claimed to have found "incriminating evidence" of irregularities. "We have found incriminating evidence. We will investigate … [Read more...]
MISFIT AND UNFIT : THAROOR AND MODI
April 21, 2010 By 1 Comment
By Sanjay Jha The glaring distinction between the two men who have hogged headlines recently is as dazzling the sunshine outside of my window. As things stand today, getting murkier by the moment, it is obvious that while former MOS for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor was perhaps a “ misfit” , IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi for sure is “ unfit” to govern IPL going by his expanding grocery-list of alleged indiscretions. While Tharoor quit from his ministerial position over “ … [Read more...]
Lalit Modi involved in betting, murky deals: I-T report
April 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Rohini Singh & Sruthijith KK, ET Bureau According to a report by the income-tax department, Modi is involved in betting and fixing in the IPL through Samir Thukral, a Delhi-based "page 3 personality". NEW DELHI: ‘Mr Lalit Modi has had a trail of failed ventures and defaults till four years back but has a lifestyle now that includes a private jet, a luxury yacht and a fleet of Mercedes S class and BMW cars all acquired in the last three years.’ Thus opens a highly confidential … [Read more...]
WHY IS KINGS XI PUNJAB SELLING OUT NOW?
April 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Sanjay Jha It may be hugely difficult but we must take a momentary pause from the interminable madness of the repugnant IPL-Lalit Modi mess and its vicious ugly confrontation with Congressman Shashi Tharoor to briefly reflect on an event simultaneously playing out, which we may be cursorily overlooking; just why is the franchise owners of Kings XI Punjab selling out now? It seems prodigiously peculiar. Let us see why. 1) IPL Commissioner and his so-called “ Governing … [Read more...]
WHAT SHASHI THAROOR COULD DO NOW ?
April 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Sanjay Jha Congressman Shashi Tharoor will perhaps hereafter never give his kindly “ blessings” in a hurry, judging from the massive flak he has drawn for his advisory role in the IPL Kochi franchise. As a smart politician Tharoor obviously saw the IPL franchise as an opportunity to create a sustained annual model to remind the frequently shifting voters of Kerala that this was his big gift to the southern state. In the complex world of electoral politics in God’s own country, it … [Read more...]
It’s a two-way street
April 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
On April 6, 1998, Sonia Gandhi was unanimously elected the Congress president. The intervening 12 years have seen huge changes. In Gandhi herself and in the way we see her. Soon after taking over the Congress presidency, Gandhi visited, Mumbai. Murli Deora, then the head of the state Congress, hosted a lunch to introduce her to the media and prominent people. With her was Manmohan Singh. When she sat down for lunch and was asked a question about politics, her response was to look at Singh and … [Read more...]
Sonia’s blueprint for party’s future
April 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s re-appointment as the Chairperson of the National Advisory Council (NAC) is a clear signal from the party of its overall assertion over the government. It is also, in a way, an admission by the party that the government needed better direction to implement the party agenda that was in tune with the aam aadmi. By institutionalising her position as NAC supremo, the party expects ministers to be more committed in their approach. The Congress is clear — its … [Read more...]
Gochi
April 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By Sanjay Jha It was bound to happen, the inevitable repercussion of mounting superciliousness and power-obsession combined in a toxic tonic. The IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi has, as is his customary practise, indulged in another provocative transgression this time dragging down the equally controversial and high profile Congressman MOS for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor. The murky money-making machinery of IPL has just received some more greased lightning. The apparently treacherous terrain … [Read more...]
