Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee remained tightlipped about his surprise eloquence over cricket politics, giving rise to speculation.
KOLKATA: A day after he stoked the anti-Dalmiya war cry in the run-up to the CAB election, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee remained tightlipped about his surprise eloquence over cricket politics, giving rise to speculation.
Even though forthright in sending across his wish in public — that Jagmohan Dalmiya should step aside in the battle for the post of CAB President — the Chief Minister was in no mood to clarify what made him to intervene.
“I do not repeat what I say,” was what he said at the Writers Building when asked whether Sports Minister Subhash Chakraborty would be meeting Dalmiya to exhort him not to contest the election.
On Monday, the Chief Minister told reporters that he did not want the reigning CAB boss to retain the chair which Dalmiya had been occupying for more than two decades.
Without clarification, the Chief Minister said he also wanted cricketer Sourav Ganguly to take more responsibility for the interest of Bengal cricket. His comments came a day after city Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee announced his candidature for the post of CAB President, giving credence to the rumour doing rounds for a fortnight that the Left Front Government had sided with the anti-Dalmiya section this time.
Though the CPI(M) had extended support to the Sharad Pawar group in the BCCI election in November last, neither the party nor the Chief Minister himself was involved in the politics for the country’s most popular game as much as it appears now. Incidentally, Mukherjee’s predecessor DC Bajpai had also contested against Dalmiya last year but could get only 13 votes.
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