Letter to the Sports Editor

Throwing the baby with the bath water

How can a Government that lauds Parliamentary Democracy that has regular elections as its corner stone, announce the annual election of the Cricket Board and then on the eve of it, postpone it indefinitely. It begs the question whether the Minister’s preferred group had defeat staring it in its face.

It is an open secret that money was playing a dominant roll in the canvassing that led up to the election, but the remedy must surely be elsewhere, rather than throwing the baby with the bath water.

I am reminded of the 1982 Referendum that polluted the electoral process. Then and now it is a clear instance of the Government kicking the ball into its own goal. - Sidat Sri Nandalochana