STATEMENT OF DR. SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY, fmr UNION LAW & JUSTICE MINISTER
On May 25, 2013 in New Delhi
In the interest of national security I urge Mr. N. Srinivasan not to resign from the President of the BCCI, or accede to the chorus for his quitting in the wake of prima facie evidence that his son-in-law Mr. Meiyappan was engaged in betting on IPL match outcomes for which he has now been arrested for custodial interrogation. Srinivasan need not pay attention to media double standard of demanding his resignation but not of Ms. Sonia Gandhi for the same reason.
The demand for Mr. Srinivasan’s resignation is being orchestrated from Mumbai by the underworld whose operational headquarters is in Dubai. Many of the Indian politicians and businessmaen who are baying for Srinivasan’s scalp are frequent visitors to Dubai and have travelled frequently to that city on the private plane of Shahid Balwas, who is a charged accused in the 2G Spectrum Scam trial. Mr. Balwas connection to Dubai gangsters is well known.
In the past the IPL has been used indirectly for terrorist financing and compromising key politicians on honey traps with imported call-girls to compromise India’s national security. With Mr. Srinivasan’s taking over the President’s post, not only the cricket capital shifted to Chennai, and thus logistically severed from Dubai, but also the Chennai team trounced the Mumbai cricket supremacy.
It is therefore ludicrous to see the Sahara Chief demanding Srinivasan’s resignation, considering he himself is on the way to jail.
I urge Srinivasan not to resign hence, following Ms. Sonia Gandhi’s example of not resigning for the Himalayan fraud committed by her son-in-law Robert Vadra [now ordinarily resident in Dubai], but urge him to hold a press conference and expose the dangerous national security risk of Dubai-Mumbai nexus in seeking control of the IPL cash flow and ultimately undermine cricket.
I also demand that the Prime Minster direct the setting of a Commission of Inquiry under a sitting judge of the Supreme Court to go into this sinister nexus of foreign terrorist patrons, corrupt Indian politicians and businesspersons, and IPL.