Apr 20, 2010 07:34 PM
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(Updated Apr 20, 2010 10:55 PM)
Prakash: - Wherever there is honey, bees are bound to get attracted to it. The latest real-life example is the Indian Premier League only. By the way, who is Sunanda Pushkar? Media people don’t know what advantage she has got? Her stakes in the Kochi IPL Team will keep on increasing. She is acting like a parasite on Shashi Tharoor. What kind of relation she has with Mr. Tharoor?
Vimal: - She is his private girlfriend, but publicly, she is just regarded only as his friend. Basically, she is a Kashmiri Girl. She has a daughter. At present, she is a widow. So, naturally, she has to play the role of a parasite. Her brothers have good connections with Dubai businessmen. Sunanda utilized the help of her brothers and now she is famously known as sweet ‘Su’ in the Business World of Dubai. She may also have connection with the ‘D’ company. It cannot be ruled out completely. She targeted Shashi Tharoor because he is an immature politician and a soft target.
Sonia: - Don’t go by the smiling face of Shashi Tharoor. He is a very intelligent person. He was well aware of the fact that he is an Indian Minister. That is why, he told Lalit Modi to keep the name of all the shareholders of Kochi Team as a big secret. Lalit Modi has good business acumen. Very shortly, he smelled something and started monitoring the entire matter. Within 2 weeks, he found out the name of a mystery woman, whose name is Sunanda Pushkar. Maan na maan, main tera mehmaan. She got 19% stake of the Kochi Team and that too of Sweat Equity. So, it is very clear that Shashi Tharoor has utilized this lady very efficiently. Whatever, this lady will earn from it, maybe, around 50% of it will go to Mr. Tharoor’s bank balance and no one will get any clue about that. That’s why; Lalit Modi started shouting in the Twitter.
Arindam: - My sixth sense is saying something else. Maybe, everyone is missing out the real big fish, who is doing the natural acting with his innocence. His name is Satyajit Gaekwad. He just fooled the reporters of Star News in a very fantastic style. A businessman never gives 19% stake of sweat equity to an unknown person, who has been referred by a friend. Who is that special friend? Is it Shashi Tharoor or no one at all? Satyajit Gaekwad knew about Sunanda Pushkar beforehand. Now, he is doing the acting that he does not know her. Sunanda’s profit is also partly a gain for Satyajit Gaekwad. Sunanda tried to save herself by crying out foul that KKR team owners wanted her to raise funds for them. Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla’s brands are more than enough to raise funds for KKR Team. You may be stunned to know that KKR is the only team of IPL-1, who got the highest amount from sponsorships. Income Tax department should have a detailed enquiry of Sunanda Pushkar and Satyajit Gaekwad. The big fishes are escaping. Mr.Tharoor is just a small fish in the pond, who wanted to become a big fish.
Vimal: - The other side of this story is not so good. There was pressure on Lalit Modi to find a franchisee for Gujarat state. But, unfortunately that did not happen.
Arindam: - There is nothing unfortunate in it. Gujarati investors were in favor of investing for the Gujarat team. But later, when Shashi Tharoor guided them for the Kochi Team, they saw that investing in Kochi Team is more profitable because Sunanda has good connections with Dubai and Mallu people regard Dubai as their second home. Now, as an investor, you will always invest on that asset, where the ROI is more. But, Lalit Modi did one biggest blunder. To make all franchisee owners happy, he made many deals by word-of-mouth and never maintained any legal papers. It’s all about business. If you have no legal papers of transactions, no matter who you are, during the financial audit, you will be sued by the Inspector. This law comes under the jurisdiction of Indian Penal Code also. So, there is no escape, if you do a business illegally. No one is yet to get the exact quoted figures for Kieron Pollard and Shane Bond. Therefore, Lalit Modi has failed to bring transparency in the entire system of IPL, which is suicidal for its future. From the point of view of Cricket, the more you increase the number of teams, the more corruption is bound to creep in. Already, the Sahara owner, Mr. Subrato Roy has become a scapegoat by buying the Pune Team with such a huge amount. Business cannot run with emotions.
Prakash: - BCCI was not aware of these things or were they sleeping intentionally? I think that BCCI people knew these things partially, but they kept mum to avoid any controversy. Sharad Pawar never got any information about the activities of his arch-rival Lalit Modi?
Sonia: - Even if they had any information about the corruption in IPL, you cannot legally blame the BCCI people, because they had no representative in IPL. Sharad Pawar and others will just wash off their hands by saying that they knew nothing about IPL scam. I think that the bidding of those Kochi Team should start afresh by cancelling the earlier stakes. Then only you can ensure a healthy scenario. Otherwise, the drama will continue with this lady like Sunanda Pushkar. By the way, what is the exact role of Laila Mahmood? Is she not linked with Vijay Mallya?
Arindam: - BJP and Left Parties have done the right thing to demand a detailed CBI inquiry in this whole IPL scam. Let them do the investigation. Whether IPL is Indians' Pathetic League or Indian Playboy League, that I don’t know, but, I think that it is surely the “INDIANS' PROPERTY LEAGUE (IPL)”.
