“So much has changed in the country”, he answers but is cut off half-way by another question, “should change not be for the better ?” The Minister again promptly answers, “ Yes, something is for good and something is for worse…” Abdullah rushes to his air-conditioned car as the Sun is turning almost ruthless with temperature hovering around 42 degrees.Īnother Union Minister and NCP leader Praful Patel walks in and is sought out for his response against his alleged stake in the IPL. But cricket is not cricket now – it is money business, right?, he is asked. “In our country whosoever goes up is pulled down,” he says. Union Minister for renewable energy Farooq Abdullah, also heading the J & K Cricket Association, is quite willing to defend Modi. There are also a number of MPs and leaders with no inside and outside links to the Modi-Tharoor controversy also trooping in and out of the Parliament to make their impromptu comments on the money-spinning cricket, it’s glamorous trappings and juicy gossips.
A short while later, a smiling Supriya Sule, Pawar’s daughter, denies any member of the extended “Pawar family” having any proxy stake in the IPL. He skirts queries, wanting to move into his ambassador car. Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is gradually seeking to distance himself from IPL chief Lalit Modi.
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