Amit Shah unveiled the statue on the anniversary of Arun Jaitley’s birth.
New Delhi:
Union Interior Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday sidestepped the controversy with Bishan Singh Bedi over the unveiling of the Arun Jaitley statue on the grounds of Feroz Shah Kotla, saying there are “two kinds of people in cricket.”
“One is the people who play. The second is the people who create an atmosphere to play cricket. Their contribution is also a lot. For that, we are unveiling the statue,” Shah said while unveiling the statue on the anniversary of Arun’s birth. Jaitley.
The former Union minister and the head of the DDCA had died in August last year. But the prospect of having his statue on Delhi’s main cricket ground had sparked a great deal of controversy, and Bedi sent a letter to the cricket corps citing his objections.
In the letter addressed to Rohan Jaitley, the son of Arun Jaitley, the spinning legend resigned his membership in the cricket corps and asked him to remove his name from the spectator box, which bears his name in 2017.
Attacking the DDCA culture, which he claims promotes nepotism and puts “administrators ahead of cricketers,” Bedi wrote that since the late administrator was primarily a politician, it is Parliament that needs to “remember him for posterity.” .
“Sports stadiums need sports models. Administrators’ place is in their glass booths,” he added in the scathing letter.
Shah said that in recent years, two events gave direction to Indian cricket, the first of which was the decision to sell the rights to the match and the other was the Indian Premier League or IPL.
“When IPL was considered, people like me used to watch from a distance. There were a lot of questions on our mind about regular matches, legal framework, etc. I used to talk to Jaitley. I used to have all the answers that time.” Shah said.
The late administrator, he said, was “clearly very confident.”
“It stayed in the background, but it shaped it and handled all the confusion and inquiries … it put things back on track and gave people the opportunity to choose cricket as a career. There was a time when people didn’t see each other. like cricket as a race but now they do it, ”he added.
Arun Jaitley, Shah said, was there “whenever I was in trouble in my life.”
“Arunj ji was with me like a big brother, he held my finger and got me out of trouble. I’ll have to admit it, he did it without fear. In my case, he didn’t care about his public image,” Shah said. said.
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