THE WORLD CUP CRICKET is in progress. It is undoubtedly one of the greatest events for Indian people as here people treat the cricket like religion. As far as India is concern cricket is a usual event. In four years the aam adami forgot the failures of Indian team in previous world cup and started cheering them again. But there are certain events , actually tragic events which cannot be omitted from the mind of the common people.CWG scam,2G spectrum scam,S BAND irregularities, ADARSH HOUSING SOCIETY case, the HASAN ALI case, the black money case etc. are those tragic events, thanks to media that makes the common man aware of the difficult but true farce conditions of the country .The first and second event are sounding very odd with respect to each other, but are of greater concerns. Now a days, after cricket these are the tea gossips. The AAM ADAMI is too much astonished by knowing that in a country like India where a large number of people are bereft of basic needs of roti,kapda,makan,shiksha scams involving lakhs of crore rupees befall .Where the world cup is a four yearly event ,scams does not have a duration but impacts for durations. There is yet another yearly event-THE GOVERNMENT BUDGET. It just come by now. Different people look at it differently. Businessmen, students have their own concerns while the common people have their own. The AAM ADAMI look at it less technically . These three ongoing events have great consequences on the core of the common man.
It is not just a game, it is like a religion-this is how cricket is described in Indian context. For the highest level tournament of this religion when selection committee announced the name of players, it anticipated that few players would be fit till the beginning of the same. This is the beginning of the contest but this can certainly be pointed out from the fielding that everyone is not fit. Praveen Kumar left out the squad. What will be the outcome, time will tell? Too much of cricket can be made responsible for this malady .Some people including me thinks IPL to be the culprit. Players treat IPL more seriously than their respective teams. Obviously, because large amount of money is involve there. Let us go sometime back, when cricket was in news for wrong reasons. Many teams had not paid the taxes, sweat equity case led to the resignation of Mr. Tharoor, irregularities done by former IPL commissioner, source of money in IPL etc. These cases portrayed that religion of cricket also is not free from corruption.
The Government Budget came at the time when the global economic scenario is unclear. Yes, the growth rate is predicted to be 9% for next fiscal. Yes, allocation for infrastructure, education, defense have been raised. Yes, tax exemption has been made. But the AAM ADAMI is asking other questions. Allocation for education is 52000 crore , almost equal to the tax due on HASAN ALI. What happened to him? where did he escape? The defense allocation in budget is 1,64000 crore, slightly less than the loss occurred to exchequer in 2G scam. Will the real culprits go behind bars? The Common people is not asking about the allocation for sports but for the conviction of Kalmadi. They are asking will the black money stashed away in foreign banks return to India? Their disgrace, anger can easily be spotted on collage campuses, railway stations, tea corners etc. Government will have to address these issues, if it wants to come back in power again.
During World Cup Cricket, which follows a number of scams, a Government budget comes and become less popular. It is not because it lacks content but because it comes at a wrong political situation.
