IPL Match Fixing 2013: The BJP's leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley, is a BCCI vice president. Narendra Modi is the chairman of the Gujarat Cricket Association and member of the BCCI's working committee.
Srinivasan enjoys the backing of both Jaitley and Modi.
The supposedly super-clean Modi has not once called for the resignation of Srinivasan. Neither has the BJP beacon of moral probity, Jaitley. In fact, Jaitley was one of the only two people (the other being Rajeev Shukla) who Srinivasan met personally on Sunday before putting his foot down on the resignation issue.
Of course, Srinivasan's main political patron is a Congressman, Shukla, who is also the IPL chairman. But Shukla is nowhere near as high in the Congress hierarchy as Modi or Jaitely are in the BJP. While Jaitley is widely acknowledged as a strategic lynchpin of the BJP, Modi is a potential prime ministerial candidate. Shukla is not a Manmohan Singh or a P. Chidambaram or even a Jairam Ramesh.
If the Congress takes a stand on the ongoing spot-fixing scam and asks Shukla to resign on moral grounds, it can score some precious brownie points by asking what two of the BJP's senior-most leaders are doing in what is arguably the country's most controversial sports body, and why neither of them has taken a public stand on Srinivasan's insistence on continuing as BCCI president.
