Rajasthan Government today lambasted Indian Premier League Commissioner Lalit Modi for dropping Jaipur as a venue in the revised schedule of the Twenty20 tournament and said the people of the state will never forgive him for this.
Rajasthan Government today lambasted Indian Premier League Commissioner Lalit Modi for dropping Jaipur as a venue in the revised schedule of the Twenty20 tournament and said the people of the state will never forgive him for this.
Shanti Dhariwal, the state's Home Minister, blamed Modi for acting against the state because he recently lost the election in the Rajasthan Cricket Association.
"Modi has pulled IPL out of Jaipur. We wanted only two out of six dates rescheduled," Dhariwal said.
"He never negotiated with us, never discussed with us. In election one party wins and the other loses like in matches but that doesn't mean you leave the state and walk away with matches. The people of Rajasthan will never forgive him for this," he fumed.
The IPL organisers have dropped Jaipur alongwith Delhi and Visakhapatnam as a venue in the revised schedule submitted to the Home Ministry which is yet to give the green signal to the high-profile event.
IPL Chief Executive Officer Sundar Raman dismissed any ulterior motive on the part of IPL to drop Jaipur and said it was a very complicated procedure.
"It was a very complicated thing to reschedule the 59 matches at different venues. There are many factors involved. We have submitted the revised schedule to the Home Ministry and Jaipur is not one of the venues in that," Raman said.
"We are still awaiting the approval of the Ministry and we will act only after we have got response from them," he said.
Modi had yesterday made it clear that Delhi and Jaipur were taken off the IPL's revamped schedule because of security concerns and if these states desire to conduct the matches, they need to talk directly to the MHA and get the clearance.
"There are security issues in these two states and that's the reason Delhi and Jaipur have been taken out of the IPL schedule," he had said. The IPL has fixed April 10-May 24 as the period for holding the second edition of the T20 League.
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