At the time when the Indian Premier League (IPL) row over the Kochi franchisee was hotting up, IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi wanted to disclose ownership details of the league's teams but the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) felt the issue was “complex and needed detailed deliberations.”
According to details put out by Headlines Today news channel on Wednesday, e-mails show how BCCI president Shashank Manohar did not allow Mr. Modi to reveal the details of team ownerships.
Mr. Modi, in his e-mail of April 14, wanted to reveal the ownership details along with names of directors of all IPL teams. He had sent the e-mail to 71 recipients and among the recipients were IPL governing council members and IPL team-owners. In his e-mail, he had said that “propriety and fair play demand we should as public body disclose ownership details along with names of directors of all franchisees once again.
Earlier, at the time of bidding, we only disclosed the names and shareholding. If everyone is okay with this we will issue the same right away, that way all doubts and aspersions being cast on IPL franchisees and members of general council will [be] rebutted.”
Among those who got the e-mail were Mr. Manohar, Vijay Mallya, N. Srinivasan, Chirayu Amin, Sunil Gavaskar, Rajiv Shukla, Manoj Badale, Mohit Burman, Sundar Raman, Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Shilpa Shetty and I.S. Bindra. Mr. Modi had sent a copy to ICC president-elect Sharad Pawar.
However, in his reply to the email, Mr. Manohar wrote: “Ownership issue is complex and needs detailed deliberations and legal implications need to be gone into and hence can be considered at the general council meeting where all documents and papers relating to the bids are available.”
Manohar's poser
PTI reports:
Mr. Manohar made light of Mr. Modi's move to disclosing the ownership pattern of the franchisees, wondering what he had been doing for the past three years. The ownership issues were complex matters, and nothing could be decided in haste.
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
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Sunanda's surrender of sweat equity seen as "admission of guilt"
In what was seen as a last-ditch effort to save Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor from getting the sack, Sunanda Pushkar, his executive friend said in a statement, that was read out in Dubai by her lawyer Ashish Mehta, that she was “deeply distressed at the vile and malicious reporting of recent days surrounding her role in Rendezvous, the successful bidders for the Kerala IPL team.''
The statement, accessed by The Hindu, said: “As a woman professional, I am shocked to find how easily certain parties with vested interest questioned my credentials merely because I am a woman. I, therefore, voluntarily offer to return to Rendezvous the sweat equity they had offered me.''
Mr. Tharoor had denied the charge that he had any financial stake in the Kochi team and claimed that he was only “mentoring'' it being an MP from Kerala.
Mr. Tharoor, MP from Thiruvananthapuram, was once the country's candidate for the position of the secretary-general of the United Nations.
“Only appropriate”
PTI reports:
The Opposition on Sunday night hailed Shashi Tharoor's resignation as Union Minister saying his position had become “untenable” in the wake of the Kochi IPL ownership controversy.
“Tharoor's position had become untenable and it was only appropriate that he resigned. There was so much evidence against him. The lady giving back her equity does not absolve him of the charges,” said BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman.
CPI leader D. Raja said the exit of Mr. Tharoor became inevitable and the Congress should have taken a decision long back when the controversy exploded.
The reported decision of Ms. Sunanda surrendering her stake is itself “an admission of guilt,” he said.
The entire IPL functioning and its accountability needed to be probed and the role of the Sports Ministry will have to be redefined so that a regulator is created to monitor the IPL, Mr. Raja demanded.
Congress spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan said the government had taken the “correct moral stand.”
“The Congress has nothing to do with the IPL. It was an issue of an individual Minister. The party has acted with the utmost restraint. It went through a very decent process by which it collected facts and a final view was taken by the Prime Minister,” she said.
The statement, accessed by The Hindu, said: “As a woman professional, I am shocked to find how easily certain parties with vested interest questioned my credentials merely because I am a woman. I, therefore, voluntarily offer to return to Rendezvous the sweat equity they had offered me.''
Mr. Tharoor had denied the charge that he had any financial stake in the Kochi team and claimed that he was only “mentoring'' it being an MP from Kerala.
Mr. Tharoor, MP from Thiruvananthapuram, was once the country's candidate for the position of the secretary-general of the United Nations.
“Only appropriate”
PTI reports:
The Opposition on Sunday night hailed Shashi Tharoor's resignation as Union Minister saying his position had become “untenable” in the wake of the Kochi IPL ownership controversy.
“Tharoor's position had become untenable and it was only appropriate that he resigned. There was so much evidence against him. The lady giving back her equity does not absolve him of the charges,” said BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman.
CPI leader D. Raja said the exit of Mr. Tharoor became inevitable and the Congress should have taken a decision long back when the controversy exploded.
The reported decision of Ms. Sunanda surrendering her stake is itself “an admission of guilt,” he said.
The entire IPL functioning and its accountability needed to be probed and the role of the Sports Ministry will have to be redefined so that a regulator is created to monitor the IPL, Mr. Raja demanded.
Congress spokesperson Jayanti Natarajan said the government had taken the “correct moral stand.”
“The Congress has nothing to do with the IPL. It was an issue of an individual Minister. The party has acted with the utmost restraint. It went through a very decent process by which it collected facts and a final view was taken by the Prime Minister,” she said.
