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IPL, Modi and Power Games

April 23, 2010 13:49 IST
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The IPL scandal has hit the roof. The media is abuzz with murky-mucky stories. Every day, a new scandal comes tumbling out. Here we compile some major reports on the IPL tamasha.

The IPL buck, it seems, now will stop with Home Minister P Chidambaram [ Images ].

In a dramatic turn of events, Chidambaram will head a government-level probe into IPL. Remember, last year Lalit Modi [ Images ] cold-shouldered the home minister by taking IPL to South Africa [ Images ]. The report.

A report in the Economic Times says the prime minister has asked Chidambaram, a hard taskmaster with a famously non-nonsense attitude, to clean up the IPL muck.

In more bad news to Modi, former BCCI president Sharad Pawar [ Images ] says he has nothing to do IPL and praised Shashank Manohar [ Images ] for his efficient leadership at BCCI.

In one of the best articles that tracks Lalit Modi's climb from the clubby world of South Delhi [ Images ] to Bel Air Home, Mumbai [ Images ] Mirror deconstructs the dramatic rise and fall of the IPL commissioner.

A report in Telegraph says respective state associations will be empowered to fully conduct the IPL matches from next year.

Not that the whole world is against Modi. Times of India [ Images ] says the Gen Y still has a soft corner for Modi.

Meanwhile, Tehelka has an interesting interview with the woman at the centre of the storm Sunanda Pushkar [ Images ], who calls the allegations against her a medieval withchunt.

Also check out our earlier posts :

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