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Is anyone felicitating Azlan Shah Hockey cup winner?

Overwhelmed at Kolkata Knight Rider’s maiden IPL Title triumph
on last Sunday, the Kolkata state government announced to
felicitate Team at Eden Gardens. The honourable CM Mamta Banerjee
sighed "It’s a big achievement for state, Shah Rukh Khan Team
represents our state & we all are proud of it." Therefore a big
road show has been arranged including all TMC top brass that
finally culminated at Eden Gardens. Eden Gardens was set free for
all local people. The Ceremony was no doubt a grand one and it was
compounded with CM presence & lots of media attention as if we won
some gold medal in Olympics. I wonder if Mamta would have
celebrated in such a way if Bengal had won in Ranji Trophy.
When this whole drama was being telecasted I was having lunch, I
was so amazed to see all such nonsense & hypocrisy and that made me
to express my feelings on this episode. I felt agitated because few
days ago I was pained to read about treatment of women
hockey & Kabaddi team & moreover in this same year Indian
men hockey team been qualified for London Olympics or their winning
of bronze medal in Azlan Shah Hockey cup today, but no one even
bother to acknowledge their achievements. This situation becomes
worse if we look at other sports like football, basketball, Table
tennis & other games. I decided to analyse rather than passing a
verdict on why only this game catches media & political attention,
result was quite obvious. Now a day’s cricket is not only a mere
sport it has become so lucrative show business in India that any
popular Politician wants to own the cricket board of the state,
with majority of the times not out of love of sport but to indulge
in corruption & show of power as much as they could.
There is no second thought about the popularity of cricket in
India, i love the game too, but now because of IPL it
combined Bollywood & politician as well means more show
off and more corruption. In IPL BCCI also owns its stake that’s why
it promotes IPL like anything. It means complete commercialisation
of sport where everyone considers everyone’s interest & indulges in
corruption with each other’s consensus. Players too become
obnoxious due to undue attention, money & media coverage. It’s
quite common to find any big cricketer in pub or rave party &
involved in scuffle. Through cricket lots of black money is being
circulated in India, big mafia & underworld have wide influence
across all spectrum of cricket. It’s a matter of contemplation.
Match fixing has become synonymous of cricket and our own
cricketers had been found guilty & got banned for his life from
game. I am not against any sport but making a sport a mere tool to
indulge corruption is not justified.
I was happy to hear that Delhi CM sliced Petrol prices for local
masses rather than giving some boastful remark in media. After
petrol price hike to 7.5 per litre first response emerged from West
Bengal was with road rally to roll back but what next. Is there any
outcome of all such things? And Mamta is still supporting
Congress government in centre. What she has done for them
to save from this steep hike? My genuine concern is if a Cricket
team represents your state & won some title, its completely state
affair & state must acknowledge it & appreciate it but why to make
so much hype & have so much money wasted on it. Its national
treasure & must be utilized for welfare to masses. All time West
Bengal CM just creates uproar & does nothing fruitful. If they
seriously want to roll back petrol prise why are TMC supporting the
centre? TMC must pull out of government if its voice is not heard.
But I am sure they will not do it as its completely political
gimmick whereas everyone pretends something else far away from
reality. If Mamta Banerjee will pull out support then she knows
that the aid & other benefits which she wants from a friendly
central government won't come easily. I am
getting convinced that IPL is nothing but a hype & by the elite
group for the elite group & simply a tool to remain alive on page
3.
I guess as an Indian we can make India a better place for
acceptability of all sports by constantly working in proper
direction. First thing we must encourage our children in early age
to get involve in different sports & games. Every state should back
up all type of sports & provide better facilities & platform at
bare minimum prize so maximum person can participate & showcase
their potential. I am sure if we keep on doing above in any sport
then that game will definitely emerge at national level & thereby
international level. Our National game hockey is
an example of it. Till 70’s it was the only popular game in India
in fact India is considered the origin of Hockey to the world.
Second decentralization of power in sports. Now a day’s all Sports
ministry at state level is owned by some popular minister however a
minister has no previous sport experience & due to that they cannot
give a desired outcome which is expected from them.
Therefore idea is every top level position must be governed by some
experienced sport person so that he/she can utilize his experience
to flourish sport across all dimension. Third independent watchdog
should be put in place to closely monitor all illicit activities in
sports; strict punishment should be pronounced besides with life
time ban so that it could be acted as an example to all to not get
involve in crime. I think we deserve few more gold medals in
Olympics and Cricket isn't even an Olympic
sport!!
Author: Poonam Soni |
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