Why BCCI Hates the New Sports Bill?
By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 12 November 2011, 01:38 IST   |    7 Comments
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Bangalore: The cry for the new sports bill just got stronger as many of India's biggest names in sports have come in support of the game-changing bill by Ajay Maken. The sports icons are all united for this one cause now and the revised draft will be placed in front of the cabinet on November 14.
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The bill initially put before the cabinet in August, was sent back to the drawing board after being allegedly blocked by the cricket big wings in the cabinet and the Indian Olympics Association. The cabinet members including Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel, Farooq Abdullah, C.P. Joshi, and Vilasrao Deshmukh objected the bill on conflict of interests as they head many sports bodies in the country. The vested interests are seen in the cabinet itself which has many politicians playing the double game. It seems like they are the judges of their own case. India's powerful cricketing body BCCI has as once again rejected the bill and cleared it stand saying that the board would not accept the bill even in the revised form until and unless its reservations are met by the sports ministry. They say the bill is draconian in nature and it interferes in their functioning. However, it should be noted that the cricketing power house have not publicly shared its concerns about the new bill neither has objected the clauses it alleges is draconian in nature. Talking in a debate in a news channel, former sports minister Mani Shankar Ayer said, "Cubans win 157 medals for every one core of their population, Chinese win about 3.5 medals for every crore of their population and India wins less than 0.5 medals for every core of its population." He alleged that the heads of the sporting federations in India are not there to inculcate a sporting culture and oppose the bill because they do not want anyone to interfere in their business.

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