Defiant Modi dares BCCI to sack him

Mumbai, Apr 24 (PTI) Unfazed by the all-round attack on
him, Lalit Modi Saturday made it clear that he will not resign
as IPL Commissioner and threatened to "expose some people" who
tried to bring disrepute to the game.
With the dice heavily loaded against him in the Monday
meeting of the IPL Governing Council and indications that he
may be sacked, Modi said people were pressurising him to
resign and dared his detractors to remove him.
Modi made his views public by tweeting his remarks even
as top BCCI officials met informally to consider the strategy
for Monday meeting where a resolution is likely to be brought
forward for removing him if he absents himself.
The BCCI President Shashank Manohar, vice-President Arun
Jaitely, secretary N Srinivasan, IPL vice-Chairman Niranjan
Shah, finance and media committee chairman Rajiv Shukla and
Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty were present at
the meeting which went through documents to prepare the
grounds for laying charges against Modi.
Elsewhere, Modi got the backing of franchise owners,
including Vijay Mallya Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta, who
hailed him for the success of the IPL and said he should be
given a chance to redeem himself.
"People pressurising me to resign - I can tell you (it)
will not happen. Let them remove me then," he wrote.
"What we have done has been there for all of you to see
for the past four years. No one can take that away," he said.
He also had a hint of threat to his opponents. "Wait for
the IPL to finish. I will reveal the men who have tried to
bring disrepute to the game and how we stopped them from doing
it," he said.
"I am not the type to quit. Have faith. Did not create
this to just walk away because X Y Z says what he feels like",
he said in another tweet.
Modi, who has been in the eye of a storm after Income tax
raids on IPL and its franchises' offices allegedly revealed
financial irregularities, also accused the media for putting
out unverified stories about his dealings.
"Media putting stories without verification goes to show
how Media can misuse their power. Don't get influenced by all
these baseless stories. Truth will prevail soon. Trial by
media and no chance to present the facts is like the wild
west. Wait and the facts will be delivered," he added.
Modi's tweets show that he is in no mood to go down
without a fight and has set the stage for a bitter showdown
with the BCCI bosses who today rejected his emotional plea to
defer the governing council meeting by five days.
Attempts by Sharad Pawar to persuade Modi to step down
and not to precipitate matters appeared to have failed. (MORE)
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