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Shiv Sena threatens not to allow Aussie players to participate in IPL | Ahead of the Indian Premier League ( IPL ) cricket tournament, the Shiv Sena has threatened not to allow Australian players to participate in the wake of ongoing attacks on Indian nationals in different parts of Down Under.
Executive president of Shiv Sena Udhav Thackeray, during media interaction on
the occasion of 84th birthday celebrations of his father and party supremo Balasaheb
Thackeray , said that his party wouldn't allow Australian Cricket players to take
part in the Twenty-20 Indian Premier League ( IPL ) tournament. It is scheduled
for March-April. The Executive President said that his party would protest and
take actions which will lead to the disruption of the schedule of the matches.
"The kind of role (of the party), expressed by Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb
Thackeray
is not for his own good but for the sake of Indian students who were attacked
in Australia. Our government is not doing anything in this regard, that is why
Balasaheb Thackeray said that the players should not be allowed to play in India
. Despite this, if they are welcomed through the Indian Premier League, then the
organizers should be ashamed of themselves," said Udhav Thackeray , Executive
President of Shiv Sena. A number of Australian players including captain Ricky
Ponting, Shane Warne, Brett Lee, Andrew Symonds, Mathew Hayden and Michael
Hussey
are due to play in this year's IPL Season-3, the third edition of the hugely popular
Twenty-20 cricket league. "If he ( Lalit Modi ) has the love for his country in
his blood, he can understand what Balasaheb Thackeray is appealing for and if
he does not, there are other ways of making him understand." said Udhav Thackeray
, Executive President of Shiv Sena. The attacks over the past 18 months, including
the fatal stabbing of a 21-year-old Indian graduate this month, have strained
Australian ties with India and hurt Australia's lucrative foreign student market,
its third largest export earner, worth 13 billion Australian dollars (12 billion
U.S. dollars) in 2007-08. Indian press has labeled attacks against Indian students
in Australia as racist whereas the police and the government Down Under have
contended
the attacks are purely criminal in nature. While the number of Indian students
pursuing higher academic courses in Australia had risen at an annual rate of around
41 percent since 2002, the recent spate of attacks has resulted in around 4000
aspirants from India canceling their plans to study Down Under. Consequent to
such attacks, a recent study did forecast a 20 percent drop in Indian students
going to Australia in 2010, costing 78 million Australian dollars. |
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