Trouble Bells Ringing For Saif ?

          Across Country its often seen large percentage cases of brawl are belongs to the scion of rich, famous and powerful persons of society as they consider themselves safe from law due to their family status, but when law tighten its noose then they declare themselves innocent and cry foul. Just last Tuesday night story of ‘Nawab’ who is son of late cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Patodi and gone years actress of tinsel town Sharmila Tagore was become electronics media’s non stop coverage as he was accused by Non Resident Indian Iqbal Sharma from South Africa that Saif Ali Khan hit him and his Father-in-law when they were enjoying their meal in a hotel during night, surprisingly even Saif also lodge complaint against Iqbal Sharma that he was provoked by Iqbal Sharma and he also have bruises, who is speaking truth and who is lying its hard to tell right now as case is under investigation, plus CCTV footage are not available for police parties in this regard. Below is glimpse of story based on the allegation by both parties and aired by electronics media – 

•  On Tuesday night Saif Ali Khan along with his set of friends of both categories male and female by name Kareena Kapoor, her sister Karishma Kapoor, His friend Shaquel Laadak, his wife Amrita Arora, her sister Malyaka and Film producer Vilal Amrohi were at Japanese restaurant of Hotel Taj Palace, Mumbai and time was of midnight, on near by table from them Iqbal Sharma NRI from South Africa was present with his Father-in-law, wife, relatives and friends, they were in the hotel to celebrate marriage anniversary. Sharma and his group was disturbed because of Saif and his friends were talking bit loud, so Iqbal Sharma object and send request to them through waiter to turn down their chat volume bit low, in response to it Saif said if you want peace then go to library, after getting this reply from Saif and company, Iqbal Sharma made mind to shift to other part of restaurant and when he and his friends were getting down from stairs then Saif comes in front of him and said, “Idiot don’t you know who am I”? Then Saif’s two male friends joined him who were accompanying him in hotel and push him and attacked Raman Patel father-in-law of Iqbal Sharma. His father-in-law fell down on stairs and get injury on his right jaw. Saif hit punch on Iqbal Sharma nose resultant his nose bone break. Then Iqbal Sharma files complaint and  taking action on to his complaint police party started looking for Saif, as he disappear after the incident, on Wednesday(22^nd February) in the evening police party arrested Saif from the house of his Lawyer and taken him to the Colaba Police Station there he was released on bail. After getting bail when he was leaving police station, outside police station media was waiting to get Saif side of story but Saif does not talk to media, but when he reached his house then he talk to media and said we were enjoying in Taj Palace hotel with friends, but Iqbal Sharma misbehave with his female friends, thus Iqbal Sharma provoked him for incident which later happened. It is interesting to code here a family of NRI stature why mess up with anybody as iqbal Sharma and his family is unknown to place where brawl took place and Saif is well known face. Although Saif apologies for the incidence but as per experts words if prove that Saif is guilty then he certainly drag himself into big trouble and its punishment can be spread in years. Police has registered the statements of few witness who were present during incident night and as per unofficial right now case is stand against Saif, but final picture will emerge in coming few days when investigation will complete.

What’s Cooking?

Cricket crazy country India is shocked to see the performance of their eleven guys on the field on foreign soil in two latest series which were played in England and in Austraila( presently One Day International Triangular Series is under progress) and both tour had below coded matches in all the formats – 

•  Test Match – India played Eight Test Matches and result stands 0-8 against India. 
•  T20 Match – India played 3 T20 matches and result is 1-2 against India. 
•  ODI Match – India played five matches against England and result was 0-3 against India and two matches ended without result one was tied and other was abandoned due to rain. 
•  Triangular Series(down under) – So far till 25^th February,2012 India have played six ODI Matches and result is 2-3 against India and one game was tied.

So as far guys performance on the field is concern they appeared pathetic and scattered despite BCCI have sent guys days advance during both tours to its players and team contains best players of present time, so that they can acclimatize in the local condition of concerned country, which can help them to boost their performances’, but unfortunately with every passing match team club itself in the worst unit and tour that represents team India on foreign soil, now media instead of debating on India’s cricket team matches’ have shifted their focus on to off the field incidents, as after the end of match against Sri Lanka on 21^st February,2012, post match press conference media find words of acting Captain Virendar Sehwag pointing towards some fishy stuff among players which should remain and sorted out in the dressing room. Even fans also sensing that team India is getting down on the ground in groups which does not belongs to India but created by individuals.

   Captain Mahendar Singh Dhoni, during post match press conference, after game against Australia on 19^th February,2012, said that team India when carry three senior players namely Sachin Tendulkar, Virendar Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir then team needs to make extra twenty runs as they are not fast on the big grounds like of Australia at the time fielding. During match due to slow over rate as per norms captain bar for one match which effective in very game. Virendar Sehwag being deputy of team get the command of team India to lead the team in next match against Sri Lanka and game was very important as far series final two teams were concerned in the tournament, despite poor show by players on the ground and one more defeat, team India’s acting captain has other motives to prove for cricket followers in India, when asked by a reporter about MS Dhoni’s comment that inclusion of three players viz Sehwag, Sachin and Guatam team needs to score twenty extra runs as all coded  are slow on field, then in ironic tone he responded did you see my catch, we are on the field as we were ten years ago, but if MS Dhoni is with mission for the World Cup 2015 and giving preference to young one through rotation policy then you can ask from him, I have no problem, but his words give birth to the speculations and media name it as rift in the team. If MS Dhoni is trying young blood by resting one senior players and have given name it as rotation policy then senior players should understand that they have to perform in the game to stretch their career as their performance will drag their career to long and plus India cannot afford to take three new comers in place of seniors at their retirements which is appearing not far away, thus if team management is trying to find alternative of them by resting them then there should not be too much hype of it as any player senior of junior is part of cricket not cricket is part of them. Instead of talking team’s performance and pathetic show by eleven guys on field on game by game basis media discuss off the field issues’, moreover its shocking that cricketers have no wrinkle of worries on to their faces’ to put better show in the rest of games so that cricket fans get relief and happiness that at least their heroes comes in colour after poor show.

     BCCI is mum on the issue of rift in team, as its president Mr. N Srinivasan deny it and vice president Rajiv Shukla decline rift and declare it is creation of some section of media, so folks if media is sensing it and fans are letting down by cricketers then ignore it as Indian lions will roar again on Indian flat pitches and against Zimbabwe, Bangladesh or even against West Indies on to their soil, forget series victory against England, Australia, South Africa, New  Zealand or Sri Lanka on to their pitches and as far Pakistan team is concern right now we have no matches against Pakistan but certainly will get score of issues’ to talk off the field whenever our team will tour in any of these countries.

Stray Dogs

Public will not have immediate relief from the stray dogs as due to lack of funds state governments oversighting issue of stray dogs, hence not only their numbers are on increasing side with every passing time but also it leads to increasing the number of deaths in country because of stray dogs biting incidents as when victim taken to government hospitals their they often get quite common phrase in their ears from hospital staff of shortage of medicines relating to dog bites cases’, then they left with no other options but to arrange medicines by themselves, shockingly in some cases’ it has seen that stray dogs even eat the small children. Below is report publish in the newspaper in which victim relatives need to buy medicines to save the life of kid – 

•  In Bhopal to save the life of his two years old kid who was bite by stray dog father arrange the anti rabies vaccine, as government hospital has no medicines available in their stock.

considering the seriousness of stray dogs biting cases’ incidents in Punjab State, state government is planning to send these dogs in the Nagaland state, where peoples use to eat dog flash.

It is quite common scene in the every streets to find two to three stray dogs across country which becomes problems for the freely movements of public especially during dark time as they chase the peoples and bark at them, and if they are hungry then situation can be worse as then they don’t afraid from eating human beings, below is glimpse of recently held incidents of stray dogs biting stories which were published in the leading newspaper of country – 

•  This year on 21^st January in a horrifying incident approximately one dozen stray dogs bite ten year old kid in the state of Jammu and Kashmir and they bite him countless times on to his different parts of his body. 
•  On 1^st February in the Haryana state stray dogs push seven years old child to some distance from his village in Kurkshetra and then killed him and eat him. 
•  On 5^th February on Nakodar Road in the Jalandhar district of Punjab state, one mad stray dog in one night itself chased and injured badly eight peoples. 
•  On 7^th February in village of Meham Padori of Amritsar district dreaded hungry stray dogs killed bus conductor who was returning to his home after completing his duty in the night and eat him. 
•  On 9^th February in the horrifying incident of stray dogs biting case five cows and four peoples were bite.

To handle the cases’ of stray dogs two government departments directly comes under the domain and they are Animal husbandry department and health department but both have rise their hands in helplessness due to monetary problems in the matter of stray dogs, so Punjab state government has plan to shift them in the state of Nagaland state.

Mahashivaratri

Today is Mahashivaratri and across country peoples are celebrating the festival with great fervor and joy, on this day in every part of the country Shivalyas ( Lord Shiva Temple) becomes magnet for lord Shiva devotees. Mahashivaratri is celebrated every year on the 13th night/14th day of the Maagha or Phalguna month of Hindu calendar and as per most popular legends of Mahshivaratri is related to the marriage of Shiva and Shakti. The day Lord Shiva got married to Parvati is celebrated as Shivratri - the Night of Lord Shiva. Almighty Lord Shiva prosperous every life of this globe, Happy Mahashivaratri to everybody !

Indian Railways

    Indian Railways is the third largest railway network of the world, it has length of 60,000 kilometers which spread over 7,500 railway stations and carries on an average daily basis 20 million passengers from one part to another part of country, hence it is widely used transportation mode in the country. From time to time Indian Railways come up with facilities for its travelers, as well as vigil that it won’t be misuse by professionals especially agents, few months ago Indian railways IRTC arms which is liable for issuing online railway tickets for passengers, to get online ticket requirements in this regard for a person is first he/she has to register with the IRTC site, then he/she should have valid email id as their password for logging in the IRTC site is forward in their email id account, had blocked 4.6 lakhs of  email id’s whom they found suspicious as these were made by agents to get online rail tickets for their clients which were mean for individual and common peoples of the country to get online tickets, thus agents were doing business, now by amending the terms IRTC has come up with slab for two tickets in a day for every email id plus not more then ten tickets in a month period. Recently Divisional Railway Manager Vishesh Chobey of Ferozpur Railway division announced that Railways will erect large display at Katra few kilometers before Maa Vaishno Devi Temple for the benefits of the railway passengers.

    One of the religious place in the country which attracts millions of devotees throughout year across the country is Maa Vaishno Devi temple, situated in the Katra, Jammu and Kashmir and more then seventy plus percent devotees mode of tavel to Maa Vaishno Devi is railways, once they bow their heads in front of Maa Vaishno devi temple then they were in hurry to reach at Jammu Tabi Railway station, hours in advance so that they can get their train, but at the time of delay of train, then they have to face score of problems. Considering this Indian Railways has made mind to erect largest display board near Baan Ganga for the benefits of its travelers. This display will help the passengers to get exact timetable of their concerned trains at Baan Ganga itself which is merely few kilometer away from the Maa Vaishno Devi temple. As per words of Divisional Railways Manager Visheh Chobey of Ferozpur Railways division that it is already cleared by railways and process of erection of display board will be completed up to June of this year, so certainly it is good news for the passengers and will help them to avoid from problems by reaching in advance on to Jammu Tabi Railway station.

    In the coming budget of Railways there is possibilities that Railway Minister Dinesh Diwedi can announce score of benefits for its travelers, and among it railways has selected fifty main stations in the country which will be equipped with escalators facilities and escalators will be helpful for travelers in the categories of old age and handicapped , in the country right now only thirteen stations have this facility of escalators for its passengers and if it is announced by Railway Minister and work will start on to the project then number of railway station equipped with escalators will count sixty three and to upgrade stations with escalators Railways will need 280 million rupees, so to finance the project its not easy as railways loss is increasing, so how they will fund the escalators project it will be interesting to see.

    So coming days are store for railways travelers schemes from railways in the different part of the country, along with it railway budget can also put smile on their faces as in the budget they can hear announcements from the railway minister, but exact and clear picture emerges only after the railway budget of this year, hence for countrymen its time to wait positively.   

Money, Money, Money

Of late for human beings in this materialistic world money becomes top of the list to fulfill their all the necessities and to earn money they are trying to use shortcut ways but with inhumane activities which is certainly a shocking issue for society, just yesterday three stories published in the newspaper which endorse our issue and human mentality to earn money by unfair means – 

•  Kulwinder Singh, resident of Italy, comes to India at his hometown which is situated at Sohal, Gurdaspur but with a motive to get 25 million rupees from his insurance company through his wife who also lives with him in Italy, by declaring himself dead. As per reports police found few days back a car having number PB 08 R 0155 registered under the name of  Kulwinder Singh s/o Raghubir Singh r/o Sohal presently living in Italy, it was fully burn along with they found dead body in the car, later on after investigation dead body was identify as Kuljit Singh but case become complex when police found Kuljit’s scooter standing near Canal of the local area, police arrested two persons in this case by name Jageer Singh and Sham Lal and they accepted that Kulwinder Singh had insurance of 25 million rupees in Italy and he wants to get the amount from insurance company through his wife after declaring himself dead in India and for this Kulwinder Singh replace himself with Kuljit Singh by calling at his house and later on three of them killed him and put him in the car which was found by police at GT road, when they reached the spot their they put petrol on to the car and on to the dead body of Kuljit Singh and set the car on fire but due to half burn Kuljit’s boot and  his duplicate set of teeth foil Kulwinder Singh’s plot to announced himself dead and get insurance money from the company, now police has alert country’s all airports so that Kulwinder Singh can’t flee India. 
•  In Phagwara, during broad daylight, three mask persons arrived at the NRI Gurbinder Singh (France) house in Phagwara in the morning when his wife was lonely in the house, they knocked the door and asked about Gurvinder Singh, instead of getting  response  of Ranjit Kaur they push her and entered the house and asked her to give them cash and other costly stuff lying in the house but Ranjit Kaur reject their demand then one of them slap her and threat they will kill her if she wont tell her about the gold and cash, Ranjit Kaur scared and hand over them keys of Almirah in which one kilogram of gold, ten thousand Euros and 50,000 Indian Rupees were kept along with other costly stuff they run away from the house of Gurbinder Singh, case registered but till date no arrest was made by police in this regard. 
•  On the complaint of Baljinder Singh, police registered case against four persons of Zirakpur. His complaint was that Jasbir Singh along with three other persons have cheated him of rupees fifty five lakhs on sale of land. On 30^th April,2012 Baljinder Singh had agreement with Jasbir Singh owner of 9 kilas, 3 kanals and 13 Marlas land @ 24.65 Lakhs per Kilas,  was settled between both the parties, but when on fix date Baljinder Singh reached the government office for registry of mentioned land, Jasbir Singh does not arrive, when Baljinder made contact with him and talk about his absence on mentioned day, he threat him and have not given any positive response for sale of aforesaid land, so this way Baljinder and his three friends has cheated Jasbir Singh of Rupees 5.5 million.

By reading above stories it appears that Money is everything in our lives, no doubt without money its really very hard to move towards any direction successfully, but at the same time money is not everything and giving money so much importance it is harmful for the society and its result will degrade human values.

Election & Government Policies

In the country at every level barring few, elections held after every five years, and its quite common complaints of voters that during the first four years of elected candidates irrespective of parties or alliance neither they were accessible to general public easily nor their work often public friendly, but once they enters in the last year of their term /governance then not only start making claims through electronics and print media at the cost of tax payers money but also announce populist schemes to woo voters, shun to take harsh decision, put on halt & drag inflationary moves so that it may not effect on to the result of elections. As India is going through the election process in five states of the country, not only Central Government but also concerned state hold anti public policies which can boil public and become anti incumbency factor, so it may be one of the reasons that voters turnout in the elections not touch 95 percent plus despite on election day declare public holiday and poling booths erects at walking distance.

Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Utter Pradesh & UttraKhand states assembly elections process will complete on 6^th March,2012 and voting in Punjab state was held on 30^th January,2012 and below coded facility public gets due to elections-

• State was under severe shortage of electricity not only during summer season from quite few years now but also in the winter season, last year state residents get uninterrupted power supply from State Electricity Power Corporation during peak of summer season, yes there were few power failures but that was due to maintance or technical problem, so thanks to elections year last year was one of the best year as far electricity supply to the state residents were concern.  

As voting held in the state on 30^th January, 2012 and after passing time of merely one week, news of Sate Electricity Corporation proposed to State Regulatory Commission to revise the prices’ of domestic and commercial consumers becomes headlines, and as per reports there is proposal of sharp increase of price revisions, but till date State Regulatory Commission’s views are not available, so consumers of both categories commercial and domestic should ready to feel the heat in the summer season not only from weather but also from State Electricity Corporation.
Due to elections in five states Central Government delay to implements price revision in below coded essential items of public, so that it may not become issue for opposition parties to woo voters –

• Petroleum Companies of public domain were vocal that they are bearing loss on to the sale of every liter of petrol that was sold in the country, hence price of petrol needs to increase immediately, despite petrol is out from government price control mechanism, but petroleum companies put on hold until the state assemblies election process in underway, and as per speculations once it will completed then price of petrol will dearer in the country. 
•  Government has made mind to give consumers LPG Cylinders six to seven numbers at subsidies rates and for rest of their requirements they have to purchase at its actual cost in a year time, and if everything will go as per schedule then it can be start from April, 2012 onwards. No doubt it will make public angry as it will hit badly on to their budget and opposition parities will get issue to be vocal but thankfully after five states assembly elections until next seven to eight months time there is no elections and government is free to grind public with its policies.

So for interest of public in election process and continue pressure on to government, elections should keep on held in the country in different states after every five to six months period or public should empower with instruments of Right to Call or Right to Reject of their respective elected representatives.

Tribute

Today is the Birthday Anniversary of Late Respected Pawan Jaswal, in the picture. Her good nature, smiling face and polite talking style all made her personality mesmerizing point that is why she will remain alive in our thoughts, mind and heart till we have breath in our mortal bodies. Miss and remember you on yourgoodselves Birthday.

Yuvraj : A Fighter

     Multitalented former Indian cricket team pacer & well known face of Punjabi Film Industry Yograj Singh, father of current regular member of Indian cricket team of ODI & T20 formats and present captain of lucrative Indian Premier League’s Pune Warrior franchisee Yuvraj Singh also known as Yuvi has seen score of ups in his cricket career and unfortunately down as far his physical fitness is concern in very short span of his life. Right now Yuvraj Singh is under treatment in the Boston,USA and there he is diagnose for cancer. Although he himself on to his social networking account tweets, his doctors and his father told countrymen through media that yes he is under treatment for cancer, but its mild and traced at first stage, so he will recover fully in eight weeks time, then can be seen again on ground playing cricket. It was earlier in the past mentioned that Yuvraj Singh had curable tumor in his lungs and will go for treatment soon.

    Talking to media few days back when news break of Yuvraj Singh having cancer and in Boston for treatment. Yograj Singh mentioned that this disease is in the family from generations right from his Great Grand Father, then Grand Father, later on to his father and even he himself is taking medicines from past almost two and half decades. Yuvi is a fighter and will come victorious from disease, then can be seen on ground playing cricket and along with it he does not forget to thanks BCCI which is bearing each and every expenses of Yuvraj’s medical bills in the USA. Union Sports Minister of India Mr. Ajay Makan also announced of Government help in Yuvraj case.

    Yuvraj Singh comes to limelight when he hit six sixes’ in the over of Stuart Board pacer of England during the Inaugural T20 World Cup in the year 2007, below is stats relating to six sixes’ by batsman in all the form of cricket in the domestic or international match, till date- 

•  31 August 1968, Garfield Sobers became the first cricketer in the world to hit six sixes’ in a game, it was first-class cricket match and over was bowled by Malcolm Nash. 
•  January 1985 Ravi Shastri in a match against Baroda while playing for Bombay at the Wankhede Stadium, Bombay hit six sixes’ in an over of left-arm spinner Tilak Raj. 
• On 16 March 2007, match between South Africa and the Netherlands at the 2007 Cricket World Cup, Herschelle Gibbs became the first cricketer to hit six sixes off an over in any form of international game and the over was bowled by leg-spinner Daan van Bunge. 
• 19 September 2007, during world cup T20 match against England , Yuvraj Singh hit six sixes in an over of Stuart Broad, he was bowling 18^th over of Indian innings and all his six balls hit by yuvi out of boundary line.

      Yuvraj Singh played his first International match in the One day format of cricket against Kenya at Nairobi (Gym) on Oct 3, 2000, then in the year 2003 played first test match against New Zealand at Mohali on Oct 16-20, 2003 and latest format of cricket that is T20 he played first match against Scotland at Durban on Sep 13, 2007, below is detail of his cricket career in all forms of cricket-   
Batting Stats-

Format	Match	Innings	Not Out	Runs	HS	Average	SR	100	50
Test Match	37	57	6	1775	169	34.80	58.33	3	10
ODI	274	252	38	8051	139	37.62	87.58	13	49
T20	23	22	4	567	70	31.50	151.60	--

Bowling stats –

Format	Match	Innings	Balls	Runs	Wickets	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Test Match	37	31	853	501	9	55.66	3.52	94.7	0	0
ODI	274	150	4832	4060	109	37.24	5.04	44.3	2	1
T20	23	11	144	194	8	24.25	8.08	18.0	0	0

As he is under treatment in USA for Cancer and information relating to his treatment is quite positive, this is really good news for all his fans, cricket lovers of country and of course for his family members, still we pray to Almighty God for his kindness on to Yuvraj Singh so that we see him soon playing for cricket crazy country India.

Baba Ramdev & His Black Money Campaign

      India is democratic country and to govern the country its liability and responsibility of ruling party or alliance, to make any law in the country elected members of all the parties debate in the lower house of parliament that is Loksabha and if they give their nod by passing the bill then bill debate in the upper house of Parliament (Rajya Sabha). In the country every citizen has right to agitate/raise their voice against government actions, but never happened that government succumb to pressure of any citizen and take action as per demands.

    Baba Ramdev also known as yoga guru, from past few years very much vocal against the sins of society and in the top of list he wants black money of Indians which is stashed by Indians in the tax haven countries as it belongs to India so it should be bring back to India, thus it will help India to get rid on score of its problems in one go, as per words of Baba Ramdev black money of Indians is amount to rupees 300 to 400 lakh crores. Certainly it’s huge money and our leaders should be serious to take initiatives in this regard as early as it is possible. Last year on June 4^th   Baba Ramdev booked Ramlila Maidan, New Delhi for one fortnight to protest against government’s silence on to the issue of black money plus few other demands and had schedule to continue his fast unto death protest till he does not get any positive response from government, but government by force ended his fast after one day itself in the night with the help of police, although in the country government gets criticism of its action from every section of society and Baba Ramdev ended his fast unto death on ninth day which he was continuing from Haridwar. Later on government found some issues’ to trap Baba Ramdev through his aide Acharya Balkrishan on some discrepancies. Then Baba Ramdev changed his strategy of protest, now he organising free Yoga Shivars across country and during shivars he never forget to tell the gathering about black money and failure of rulers to bring back the black money in the country. He also made Bharat Swabhiman party and at the time of making party(about two years back) he declared he will put his party’s candidate in all the 543 constituencies of the country in 2014 general elections, along with it he also announced that he can start with the UP assembly elections 2012, but in UP assembly elections which are under way and there is no sign that his party will fight elections. His voice against black money is as loud as it was on day first through electronics media, but till date government have not listen seriously on to his demands, and as mentioned earlier it does not happened in the past that government succumb under the pressure of any citizen, its example is Anna Hazare, whose campaign against corruption and implementation of Jan Lokpal bill in the country is continue, despite his below coded protest throughout in the year 2011 which was started from April month – 

• On  5^th April 2011 he protest through fast unto death for four days because government accepted his demand for Lokpal and agreed to constitute committee having five members from both sides to make Lokpal draft, later on which will be presented in the parliament’s monsoon session. 
•  On 16^th August,2011 onward he fast for 12 days as government ignore civil society draft and get nod from Group of Ministers on to Government Lokpal version, and after twelve days of his fast unto death government accepted his demands and ready to present all the versions of Lokpal in the parliament available to them for consideration. 
•  In the winter session of parliament Anna Hazare gave ultimatum if Jan Lokpal draft will not pass then he will sit on fast from 27^th to 29^th December,2011, government specially extended parliament session for Lokpal debate for three days, but after two days of his fast unto death protest Anna Hazare called  off his fast after doctor asked him because his health deteriorated, and in the parliament lower house cleared the bill but in the upper house it was stuck due to time limits of parliament session and upper house of parliament debate on bill till midnight, so despite his efforts throughout year bill still not implemented in the country.

If Baba Ramdev wants his issues’ should be considered seriously by government then its without any doubt straight forward and right way is he should have strength in the parliament,, and for this he send his representatives elected through democratic process that is elections and then can do best for the country, other wise if he keep on raising his  issues’ in the country through media then it will not give fruitful dividend to country, choice lies with Baba Ramdev himself if he is serious on to his demands then he do need to act by walking on the path of democratic process, other wise his MISSION is IMPOSSIBLE.

IPL Auction 5 & Indian Cricket Team Sponsorship

On 4^th Feb,2012 auction of players held for the fifth edition of IPL, total 122 players were available for the auction and they were from all around the cricket playing nations except Pakistan citizens but in this edition two Pakistan origin players were also part of auction and they had to purchased by nine franchisees’ as one of the franchise of IPL by name Kochi Tusker, Kerala was suspended from the lucrative cricket league of the world. In this auction two players were sold multifold from their base price and they were Ravindra Jadeja (India) and Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) – 

•  Ravindra Jadeja – Base Price 100,000 US Dollars –Sold 2,000,000 US Dollars- Chennai Super Kings.
• Mahela Jayawardene – Base Price 300,000 US Dollars – Sold 1,400,000 US Dollars – Delhi Daredevils

It is interesting here to code that auction of Ravindra Jadeja was tied at the maximum reserve price of a player that is 20,00,000 US Dollars between Chennai Super Kings and Deccan Charges, then as per rules both parties asked for secret bid for Ravindra Jadeja and it was won by Chennai Super Kings, but Jadeja will get only 9,50,000 US Dolloars rest amount along with secret bid amount by CSK will goes to the kitty of BCCI, below is the list of successful sold players from the list of 122 –

Sr.No---Name of the Player---Country--- Base Price---Sold US Dollars---Sold To

1--------Ravindra Jadeja---------India--------100,000--------2,000,000---------CSK

2--------Mahela Jayawardene---Sri Lanka----300,000-------1,400,000---------- DD

3--------Brendon McCullum-------NZ--------400,000--------900,000--------- KKR

4--------Muttiah Muralitharan---Sri Lanka----200,000------- 220,000--------- RCB

5--------Darren Bravo------------West Indies---100,000--------100,000-------- DC

6--------Herschelle Gibbs-------South Africa---50,000----------50,000--------- MI

7--------Bradley Hodge---------Australia-------200,000--------475,000-------- RR

8--------Dinesh Chandimal-----Sri Lanka------50,000 -----------50,000-------- RR

9--------Parthiv Patel------------India--------- 200,000---------650,000-------- DC

10-------Doug Bracewell---------NZ------------50,000----------50,000-------- DD

11-------Mitchell Johnson-------Australia------300,000----------300,000-------- MI

12-------Andre Russell-------West Indies-------50,000---------450,000-------- DD

13-------Rudra Pratap Singh---India  -----------200,000-------600,000---------MI

14-------S Sreesanth-----------India----------400,000--------400,000---------- RR

15-------R Vinay Kumar-----India-------------100,000---------1,000,000----- RCB

16-------Brad Hogg-------Australia----------100,000----------180,000----------RR

17-------Sunil Narine-------West Indies--------50,000-----------700,0---------KKR

18-------Robin John Peterson---South Africa---100,000--------100,00----------- MI

19-------Ramesh Powar---------India------------100,000----------160,000---- KXIP

20-------Daniel Harris-------Australia-------------50,000-----------70,000--------DC

21-------Kevon Cooper-----West Indies-----------50,000-----------50,000------- RR

22-------James Faulkner-----Australia-------------100,000---------190,000------ KXIP

23-------Azhar Mahmood----England--------------100,000---------200,000------ KXIP

24-------Thisara Perera------Sri Lanka--------------50,000----------650,000------ MI

25-------Merchant de Lange----South Africa------50,000-----------50,000-------- KKR

In the morning at the time of news of IPL Auction V, along with it one news relating to Indian Cricket also catches the eyes of cricket lovers of India which was that Sahara India breaks its sponsorship with team India which had relations with team India as sponsor from past eleven long years and their latest contract with team India they had renewed on 31^st July,2010 which was valid till 31^st December,2013.  As per terms Sahara India was paying 303.4 million rupees for every Test match, One Day and T20. As per information available to media Sahara India had score of differences’ with BCCI, today Sahara India announced not only cancellation of its sponsorship with team India but also declared they are no more interested to continue as franchisee of Pune Warriors, below coded are major issues’ which led to Sahara India scrap all its ties with cricket –

• Inclusion of Chris Gayle in the Royal Bangalore had objection to few franchisees’ of IPL and Sahara was one of them, Mumbai Indians gets permission to play with one extra foreign player due to injuries but Pune Warriors was not allowed to follow the same, so there was two set of rules for franchisees’.
•  Pune Warriors purchase Saurav Ganguly for 4 lakhs US Dollars, and as Yuvraj is not physical fit and for his replacement there proposal to add his price in their kitty at the time of auction was denied by BCCI.
•  BCCI keep on denying their request of open auction which was meant for every franchisee get level playing field , BCCI rejects it on the ground of strong terms that are placed. 
•  Sahara India was disqualify from the auction in the year 2008 due to small technical discrepancies thus even their bid was not open, and last year total 94 matches were scheduled to played between ten franchisees’ but it reduced to 74 matches. Request of Sahara India to return additional money was refuse and they get answer from BCCI of strong terms.

So right now both sides are in no mood to step back from their respective positions as  during press conference of IPL auction V when question asked from BCCI representatives about Sahara India’s decision to break its ties with cricket, reply of it came that they have not received anything from Sahara India in writing so they are not in position to reply on that, plus if Sahara India want to exit, then it is their wish, but show must go on. In few days time it will be interesting to see how this story take final shape.    

Cricket, Records & India

Any Sport comes under individual or group depending upon the way it played, if it plays by single player then its individual but if it needs more then one player then it becomes team game. Cricket is the game which contains eleven players to make a team and in all the three formats namely Test Match, One Day International better known as ODI and shorter version of cricket T20 of International Cricket Council(ICC), to win game team needs to perform consistently in all the three departments of the game i.e. batting, bowling and fielding. Any team can defeat other team in one or two games at the expenses of  bowling or batting performance of individual but to remain invincible in its every appearance of game there is no two thoughts that team has to perform in all the three departments.

For few years now India emerges as money spinner for ICC and Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) is richest board in the world of cricket, that’s why its players get respect from all the playing country members and former players on and off the field. That is why score of Indian current players get other names and famous and known in the world of cricket with these names –

• Sachin Tendulkar – Master Blaster, Little Master, God of Cricket 
• VVS Laxman – Very Very Special 
• Rahul Dravid – The Wall 
•  Virendar Sehwag – Sultan of Nafazgarh 
•  Harbhajan Singh –  Turbanator

Ex Cricketers Indian and foreigner after there retirements get jobs with electronics media as experts or commentators and often use the lines as cricket in India is religion, cricket crazy country or cricket fanatic, moreover they play the game on the pitch of media screen with views full of if’s and but’s  and it is worth mentioning here that nobody is expert in this world of anything and its biggest example in front of Indians are of Sunil Gavaskar  and Amitabh Bachchan who despite gem of there respective fields unable to promote the career of their sons in which they are highly respective and idol, there sons flops badly.

India has lost last eight test matches they played on foreign bouncy pitches, five ODI and Two T20 consecutively, in spite of having best players as part of team. Below is glimpse of all the matches –

• 1^st Test Match – India v/s England – 21^st July to 25^th July,2011; Lords, London ; England won by 196 runs; Sachin Tendulkar scored 34 and 12 in first and second innings. 
•  2^nd Test Match – India v/s England – 29^th July to 2^nd August, 2011;Trent Bridge, Nottingham; England won 319 runs; Sachin Tendulkar scored 16 and 56 runs in first and second innings. 
•  3^rd Test Match – India v/s England- 10^th August to 14^th August,2011; Edgbaston, Birmingham;   England won by an innings and 242 runs; Sachin Tendulkar scored 1 and 40 runs in first and second innings. 
•  4^th Test Match – India v/s England – 18^th August to 22^nd August, 2011; Kennington Oval, London; England won by an innings and 8 runs; Sachin Tendulkar scored 23 and 91 runs in first and second innings. 
•  T20 – India v/s England – 31^st August,2011 – Old Trafford, Manchester; England won 6 wickets.
• 1^st ODI- India v/s England – 3^rd September,2011 – Riverside Ground, Chester-Le-Street; no result because of rain and England did not faced the desire twenty five overs for result based on D/L methods. 
• 2^nd ODI- India v/s England – 6^th September,2011 –The Rose Bowl, Southampton; England won by 7 wickets. 
•  3^rd ODI – India v/s England – 9^th September,2011 – Kennington Oval,London; England won by 3 wickets; D/L methods. 
•  4^th  ODI – India v/s England – 11^th September,2011 – Lords ,London; Match tied; D/L methods. 
•  5^th  ODI – India v/s England – 16^th September,2011 – Sophia Gardens,Cardiff ; England won by 6 wickets; D/L methods. 
• 1^st Test Match – India v/s Australia – 26^th December to 30^th December,2012; Melbourne Cricket Ground – Australia won by 122 runs ; Sachin Tendulkar scored 73 and 32 runs in first and second innings. 
•  2^nd Test Match – India v/s Australia – 3^rd  January to 7^th January,2012; Sydney Cricket Ground – Australia won by and innings and 68 runs ; Sachin Tendulkar scored 41 and 80 runs in first and second innings. 
•  3^rd Test Match – India v/s Australia – 13^th January to 17^th January,2012; WACA – Australia won by and innings and 37 runs ; Sachin Tendulkar scored 15 and 8 runs in first and second innings. 
• 4^th Test Match – India v/s Australia – 24^th January to 28^th January,2012; Adelate Oval – Australia won by 298 runs ; Sachin Tendulkar scored 25 and 13 runs in first and second innings. 
• T20 – India v/s Australia – 1^st February,2012 – Sydney Cricket Ground – Australia won by 3 runs.

At the time of India’s both tour of England and Australia India sent its players few days advance so that its players acclimatize in the local conditions and that was the reason at the time of first test match against England media hype the match instead of India v/s England game, they were talking about Sachin’s Hundredth Hundred but its shocking to code here that Sachin is part of India team and India’s victory or defeat will goes into the record book and will be remember not by anybody’s personal records but by the outcome of result, personal records looks better and highlighted only at the time of team’s victory but if India will keep on loosing the games after games everything will be forgotten with concerned player’s retirement, so its better for senior players to announce their retirements if they keep on failing game after game before the pressure of followers mounts due to their failure after failure and selectors take harsh decision and throw them out of team. As it is now quite visible that followers are boiling on to the poor show of their so called stars and few times recently speculations were in the air of retirement of VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid, so its better for senior players to take decision of their retirements at right time and exit from the game with respect and honour before they fire  by Board.

Punjab Assembly Elections 2012

  On 30^th January,2012 from 8 a.m. onwards till 5 p.m. voting held in Punjab State for all the 117 assembly constituencies and except few minor incidents of clashes, elections held peacefully. As per details furnish by Election Commission this time voter turnout was 76.63 percent which is record polling in the history of Punjab assembly elections, previously highest was recorded in the 2007 assembly election that was 75.47 percent. Counting of votes will take place on 6^th March,2012 and this is also very first time that after polls counting of votes have gap of more then one month period, it is due to that Punjab state has gone for polls along with four other states of country and as Uttar Pradesh elections will held in seven phases’ and after completion of last phase in Uttar Pradesh polls, counting of votes in all the five poll states will start on 6^th March,2012.
  Credit goes to the Election Commission for peaceful elections in the state and because of its sharp vigil supervision it has collected undeclared money worth Rupees 30 crores which they handed over to the Income Tax department plus big haul of wine and drugs also seized, Election Commission this time distributed voter slips to the voters at their residence having detail of voter card numbers and photo of the voters, which help them to cast their votes without any problem and it also help election officials to recognize voters and get rid on the vogues voting easily, heavy deployment of security personals until polls, so perhaps all these were the factors of high turnout of voters, ruling and oppositions parties have their assessments on to record percentage, like –

• Record percentage means peoples are angry against ruling party/alliance.
• Peoples  comes in huge numbers to vote because they are happy with the government work and want that development work in the state continue, so record turnout is sign of pro incumbency factor.
• As this time in the state election Sanjha Morcha emerges as third front that is the reason they become voter puller thus vote percentage was all time high.

    In the elections there was not any wave towards any party or alliance so till polls no political party / alliance claim with confidence that public will give verdict to them, but in the media they don’t forget to claim public is fully stand behind them. One more factor plays crucial role in the Punjab state assembly elections that is support of  Dera Sacha Sauda, Sirsa which have fifty lakhs followers in the Malwa region and Malwa region has 64 seats out of 117 assembly seats, so it plays vital role in the results of state assembly elections, but this time Dera Sacha Sauda remain silent and have not openly support any party or candidates instead asked its followers to vote for honest and good candidates, before elections in the first week till twentieth of January few pre polls analysis( opinion polls) declared Indian National Congress will come to power without any problem and if they lose then it will be because of  Indian National Congress dissidents. Later on in the last seven days few more opinion polls tilt towards SAD/BJP alliance, so in these scenario its obvious till 6^th March,2012 thick speculation will remain in the air and only after 6^th March,2012 everything will crystal clear as far public mandate is concern to govern the state for next five years by any part or alliance.
   Although it was recorded 76.63 percent voters turnout but why 23.37 percent skip to use their democratic right of voting, in the country during elections debate was on how to attract voters to cast their votes, even somebody have suggested that voting should make mandatory and failure of it should be punish despite on polls day area under voting declared as public holiday so that everybody use their voting right without any burden of to go office, but along with it one should understand why peoples skip to votes as majority of believers are perhaps voters don’t like contesting candidates and if this is the reason then Election Commission add one more button on EVM of Right to rejection plus then make mandatory of casting votes then certainly it can change the thinking of voters and can attract voters to the polling booths in more then 99.99 percent.