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Kirti Azad upset over IPL controversies, compares it to fantastic cinema script | Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former cricketer Kirti Azad on Friday compared the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament to a fantastic cinema
script, where there are both heroes and villains providing full entertainment
to the viewers. Reacting to reports of Delhi Police arresting Australian player
Luke Pomersbach for molesting an Indian-American woman and allegedly beating up
her boyfriend at a the Maurya Sheraton Hotel in New Delhi, Azad said: "It's a
fantastic script of the IPL. IPL is supposed to be entertainment, so is cinema,
which is an entertainment. So, the only thing left in this entertainment of IPL
was rape. When you go and watch a cinema, you find a hero, a villain. So, we have
seen how smugglers earlier or people used to money launder from here. We have
seen how foreign exchange regulations have been violated by the IPL. We have seen
one player slapping the other, that's another entertainment." Expressing apprehension
over the fact that the law is not taking its due course in all untoward matters
related to the IPL, Azad said: "We have seen money-laundering case, then we have
seen how people are ready to spot-fix, that is spot fixing. Now, the rape has
come into it. And, there are so many things, you have got full 'masala', it's
full entertainment, a very good cinema can come out of it. If somebody wants to
give me a role in it, even of a villain, I am ready to take it, because I think
nobody better would enact that." "And they are above the law, so they don't even
have to go to the police. I suppose they tried their best that the Australian
lady on whom an attempt to rape had taken place that don't go to the police, but
she did. So, it's a beautiful story, the real IPL we are seeing. And, it is unfortunate
they are above the law," he added. Azad further informed that he would be sitting
on an agitation beginning this Sunday to throw light on the untoward matters linked
to the IPL, which is hurting the reputation of the prestigious game of cricket.
"I am going to sit on a 'dharna' from the 20th of this month against the association
in Delhi and also against Delhi Police and also against all that we see in the
IPL. I am sitting on this dharna from Sunday. And I shall be there with all the
papers in English and in Hindi," he said. Delhi Police had earlier today arrested
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) player Pomersbach for allegedly misbehaving
with the woman in the bar of the hotel. According to reports, Pomersbach allegedly
misbehaved with the woman, a US citizen of Indian origin, at the IPL after-match
party. A case of molestation and hurt has been registered against him.
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