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Pawar-ful plea for non-political Prez - Pioneer
After the Trinamool Congress, another UPA ally, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), has queered the pitch for the Government over the issue of candidate for the presidential polls, slated for June. NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday pitched in for a “non-political person” as the country’s next President even as he categorically denied that his party had endorsed former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma as a possible candidate.

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When television news anchor Rahul Kanwal got through to Srinivasan and asked him about Meiyappan’s arrest, the BCCI president reacted with thuggish belligerence: 'Shut up, just shut up. I will fix the whole lot of you.' It’s amusing, of course, that “fixing” appears to be uppermost on Srinivasan’s mind even at this stage.This IPL series has shown up the carnival to be a can of worms and India’s cricket administration to be rotten at its core. As a first step towards fixing it over the long haul, Srinivasan and his political patron and IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla should be made to resign, and the Chennai Super Kings team disqualified.
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