Chidambaram At It Again; Takes Dig At IPL Organizers!

P. Chidambaram, India’s Home Minister, appears unfazed by the “shoe” stopping effect. Once again he is reigniting the issue of the IPL moving out of India and calls it the slight hand of the IPL organizers which backfired.
Chidambaram has accused the IPL organizers ( in other words, the BCCI) of acting hastily and trying to impose their own authority on the subject of hosting the IPL 2 in India only to come up against a defensive police force under duress.
Chidambaram stated, “We could have done it (had IPL2 in India), but if only they (the IPL officials) had reflected on the concerns of the police and not try to pressurise the state chief ministers.”
He even an alternative idea for hosting the second season of the IPL. He further stated, “If they had only listened to the concerns of the police, the tournament could have been played in two parts. First the league part and then give a break for the critical three or four week period and then the knock out part.”
Then he attacked the IPL organizers directly, “The IPL organizers were trying to be too clever by putting the pressure on chief ministers and ultimately the police told the chief ministers, ’sorry, we cannot provide security.’”
Well, perhaps Lalit Modi, the IPL Commissioner, would have only tired after three rounds of proposals of potential schedules for the IPL and the idea of a break up in the tournament would have crossed his mind as well. But with a tight internationals schedule and given the long gap in that proposal, it is hard to see how it could have been accepted.
But perhaps Chidamabaram is keen to run the cricket office like Sharad Pawar, or is politics now telling how sport should be run in the country?