Yet another round of talks, commission, investigation and finally a draft bill which might see the light some day. The simple fact is that BCCI cannot deny its role, willing or unwilling, in this fixing. They were in denial all these years. Now they rush to Mr. Sibal. They refused to come under RTI. They refuted all charges till date. If they were correct, what was the need to plead now. What law will prevent them from fixing matches in future if they and their players themselves cannot control their act. This is just another move to hush up the whole issue as many big names will be involved. They will form another committee, prepare and propose n Act, hold it at ransom in the Parliament and during this period the game will go on as usual.
Re: This is like
by Indian Citizen on May 24, 2013 04:04 PM
People will continue sailing in the same boat as long as they share their loot. :) This appears to be very intelligent way of money loot !!
BCCI is a private organisation that is not accountable to Indian govt or public. They should not have any powers to control Indian cricket unless they are contracted by sports ministry. all that money they made by giving channel rights , the discounts they avail in using govt owned grounds, they have no rights for it
The two BCCI officials who met Kapil Sibal are Rajiv Shukla (IPL Chairman) of Congress and Arun Jaitley (BCCI Vice-President) of BJP. How noble of our politicians belonging to different parties to have anti-fixing law to cleanse cricket. What they have failed to see is it is more gambling than fixing. So, they want an anti-fixing law to throw some small-time cricketers into jail and give a free hand to the bookies, the politicians, the bollywood bigwigs and businessmen to continue with their gambling activities with their ill-gotten wealth. Our politicians, especially Congressmen, are indeed noble!
