IPL Gate: BCCI will not attend IPL awards night: BCCI and Shashank Modi take on Lalit Modi

  

By Flynn Remedios – futuristicmedianetwork.wordpress.com/ipgate.wordpress.com 

News reports have suggested that senior BCCI officials including BCCI President Shashank Manohar may not attend the IPL Awards Night next week. This decision by the BCCI has also been communicated to other franchises, news reports have suggested.

Meanwhile Shashank Manohar claimed in a TV interview that there were documents including confidential and crucial bid papers which even senior BCCI officials have not seen or are not aware of.

 Meanwhile BCCI governing council member Mansur Ali Khan alias Tiger Pataudi has claimed in a TV interview that in introspection the entire governing body of the BCCI must take responsibility for the IPLgate and step down.

 

According to the Times of India:

 

When the final of IPL-3 gets under way in Mumbai on Sunday, the BCCI top brass will be missing. It might well be IPL commissioner Lalit Modi’s last hurrah as he sits through the match to be followed by the awards presentation and a gala later on.

The BCCI bosses are understood to have decided that by not turning up for what is Indian cricket’s premier tourney, they will have distanced themselves from Modi and what they see as his unsalubrious influence on the sport. It would set the stage for the governing council meeting of April 26 where they intend to remove Modi as IPL chief.

In an indication of what could transpire at the IPL governing council, the Board members have already voicing their views in the media against Modi over the last couple of days and the numbers game seems to be turning against the cricket whiz. Though he has chosen to dig in his heels, the “boycott” of the final will be the establishment’s rebuff while also driving home Modi’s isolation.

Apart from Modi, the governing council members include Shashank Manohar, N Srinivasan, Sanjay Jagdale, M P Pandove, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, M A K Pataudi, Arun Jaitley, Rajiv Shukla, I S Bindra, Chirayu Amin and Farooq Abdullah.

Events have moved quickly since BCCI brass met at Dharamshala a little more than a week ago and went into a huddle to discuss anti-Modi strategy. Thereafter, Manohar’s visit to Delhi earlier this week saw him make a direct appeal to ICC president-elect Sharad Pawar to drop his advocacy for Modi.

Twice this week, PM Manmohan Singh has been briefed by BCCI vice-president and Congress MP Rajiv Shukla on the Board’s steps to clean up IPL.
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IPLgate: IPL officials destroying data on laptops, servers.

By Neelakshi Singh – Futuristic Media Network 

IPL officials, secretaries, managers and others are on “Operation Clean-up”, say sources. But they are not cleaning the cricket body of the scamsters and wheeler-dealers. Instead, they are destroying crucial evidence, lest it should fall into the hands of the authorities. 

According to Flynn Remedios, author of IPLgate – the mother of all cricket scams (iplgate.wordpress.com and ghotala.wordpress.com), secretaries, managers and officials have begun deleting emails and clearing the trash cans on their laptops, desktops and even computers at home. IT (Information Technology) engineers have been told to clear the cache and trash on servers, lest it lands in the hands of the government, says Flynn Remedios. This follows the leaking of crucial emails to the media including an email sent from NCP politician, bigwig and industrialist Praful Patel’s secretary to former MOS Shashi Tharoor.

 The email sent by Praful Patel’s secretary Champa Bharatwaj is a spread sheet document according to TV reports. Praful Patel obtained the mail via his daughter who works for Lalit Modi at the IPL office. Apparently Patel asked Modi to forward him the email which was then forwarded by his secretary to Shashi Tharoor. Vijay Mallaya relative also works for Lalit Modi at the IPL office, reports have claimed.

 Meanwhile IPL governing council member Mansur Ali Khan “Tiger” Patudi  has demanded that that Lalit Modi must step down. This follows a news report by CNN IBN that Lalit Modi may move the Bombay High Court praying for a stay on the meeting called by the BCCI on the 26^th April 2010.

 The scandal broke loose when Lalit Modi tweeted on Twitter releasing the shareholding pattern of the Kochi franchisee in which Shashi Tharoor’s special lady friend Sunanda Pushkar had a stake of Rs 70 crore. Praful Patel today confirmed that he had helped Shashi Tharoor with the valuation of the Kochi cricket team. But an NCP spokesperson said that Patel did not wrong and the documents were all in public domain.

The question remains that if the documents were in public domain, why did a MOS like Shashi Tharoor require Praful Patel to send it to him. He could have asked Lalit Modi for the documents directly. The documents were sent to Tharoor two days prior to the Kochi bid.