It is less than two months when the second season of Indian Premier League would be set into motion. While all the other teams are preparing strategies to perform in a much better manner, in case of Rajasthan Royals the team is gravitating into a different direction. There is a raging battle going on between Lalit Modi, who is commissioner of the Indian Premier League, and his detractors to control the state of affairs in the Rajasthan Royals. There are two cases being probed against Modi, one of them involves forging of a signature to become a member of the RCA and the second is more serious of not passing on the money collected in the name of Chief Minister's Fund to the beneficiaries. Court is already seized of the matter. A High Court judge has been appointed to look into the matter.

Is the threat that has been issued by Lalit Modi in contraventions of the powers that he enjoys as the Chairman of the Indian Premier League? Can Modi do it? He may be the head of the IPL, but he cannot create a pressure to settle his personal score with the RCA. It is perfectly fine that he has done quite a lot for the cause of the cricket in Rajasthan but this does not give him a license to issue a threat for clearing his name. He claims that the issue is being blown out of proportion, and is a politically motivates statement, as the present political dispension is on a witch hunting exercise, and is trying to use all the chances of denying arrest.  

His threat pertains to shifting of the venue to other centres, if the controversy is not resolved. It may be fine by way of utterance but it would be a tad difficult to implement as in most of the states the cricket the politicians head associations and they can also join the flock together in the hour of crisis. The present Chief Minister of Rajasthan has gone on record to tell that he would not allow the matches to be taken out of Rajasthan on this issue, as this is an issue that is related to administrative functioning, and people of Rajasthan should not suffer on account of the same.

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