IPL's hidden hands *

With the resignation of Tharoor, it is evident that he has become the scapegoat of the core Committee's nepotism and Congress's appeasement of BJP for withdrawing the cut motion against the Finance Bill. The govt should prove its credibility by tracing out the big hands in the IPL and ordering a probe into the sources, rather than silencing the opposition with the resignation of Tharoor. If the Kochi IPL is taken away to Ahmedabad or elsewhere, Tharoor can cite it as a case of north -south divide.

* Published in Letters to the Editor, The New Indian Express, dt April 20, 2010