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.