Businessman and former cricket director Lalit Modi, founder of the Indian Premier League (IPL), has questioned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s repeated comments about him.
Lalit Modi asked why Rahul Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, continues to raise his name in speeches and parliamentary debates.
Modi says no case has been brought to court in 17 years
Lalit Modi claimed that in the past 17 years, no case against him has been proven. He challenged the authorities and said that the arrest cannot happen directly without a lawsuit, and everything must go through the law.
The absence of a lawsuit for nearly two decades indicates his innocence, according to him. If he had done anything wrong, he would have been taken to court and punished by now, he said in an interview with news agency ANI.
Lalit Modi said he is not afraid of the law, but is worried about political retaliation. He claimed that some people with political power and personal anger against him are trying to create problems for him.
“They[Ambaniand[AmbaniandAdani]Don’t sell newspapers. They don’t sell news. I sell news. Okay? Because cricket is so big. Cricket has become so big. “Cricket has put me in the limelight, which is different from Mr. Adani and Mr. Ambani, who are good friends of mine,” Modi told ANI.
Modi faced major problems during the 2009 IPL season when the tournament was moved to South Africa. He added that the then Home Minister P Chidambaram put pressure on him and did not want the Indian Premier League to happen smoothly in India.
The problem of government permission
Lalit Modi pointed out that the Congress was led by… The UPA government refused to provide security for IPL matches due to the 2009 general elections. He claimed that BJP-ruled states support hosting matches while Congress-ruled states do not allow it. This situation made him face a difficult administrative problem while managing the tournament.
His team had to change the IPL schedule 154 times before finally shifting it to South Africa, Lalit Modi told ANI. The final decision to change the IPL came after strong pressure from P Chidambaram, who was very powerful at that time. He ended by repeating his main question again: Why is he always targeted by political leaders like Rahul Gandhi even though there is no proven case against him.
