Is the IPL more important than General Elections?
Every sensible person knows that conducting the elections successfully is way more important than staging the IPL successfully at the same time. The Government had requested the BCCI to reschedule the IPL, ostensibly to stage it successfully. Central forces are essential during elections, when they would be deployed in large numbers. They can not be spared for any other concurrent event. But after the terrorist attacks on Sri Lankan cricketers in Pakistan, deployment of a high level of security is imperative, all the more so as the IPL involves the participation of a large number of overseas cricket players. The life and limbs of these foreign players as also India’s cricket stars can not be left to inadequate security. It would be a blot on India, if anything untoward happened with the overseas cricketers due to inadequate security. Thus the Government’s request to reschedule the IPL, preferably after the General Elections, which is the single biggest event in a democracy, was perfect
