Needed: Neta-cricket divorce

June 23, 2015 08:39

Politicians of India must answer! Let us sit back and reflect on the clamour for the resignation of two BJP leaders, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. By all accounts, both internal to the ministry and outside, Swaraj has done an outstanding job as foreign minister. Raje has been equally outstanding what no political leader has tried to date, she has not only attempted but begun to implement, that is, labour reforms.

However, there are calls, led by the normally silent Congress party, that the BJP leadership should force the two women to resign (sexism anyone?). What is the crime involved that demands resignation? For a lay observer, it seems that the crime is one of guilt by association of interacting with representatives, especially past representatives, of an organisation called the BCCI. This organisation has ostensibly the interests of cricket at heart, but for at least the last two decades, the BCCI has been known for palace intrigue, and allegedly for corruption, match-fixing and related scams.

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