Cricket and Congress!

Cricket in India enjoys enormous popularity. Cricket and cricket administrators are often accused of frustrated the growth of other sports in India. Although this is far from the truth is, I find popularity of cricket in India is strikingly similar to the Congress party gets support in India. Both are thriving in this country, especially since there are not faring better competitors. Let's analyze the situation in a little more depth.

Congress is of course the first political party formed in India. With the stalwarts such as Tilak, Gandhi and Nehru as its leaders, enjoyed it, of course, enormous support from the citizen who led to independence. After independence, however, gave rise to many national and regional parties. But, apart from a few years, Congress has the party in power has been for most of the period. So, even after almost 60 years, Congress has a nation wide appeal.

Cricket also immensely popular from the days of Pentangular tournaments. Other sports have patches have dominance. Such as Hockey enjoyed its golden age in the fifties and sixties. Tennis reached its peak in the late 1960s as India Davis Cup finals twice. Indian football was in his Prime in 1962 Asiad and 1960 Olympic Games. But leave apart these anomalies and you Cricket pronunciation of the hearts of Indian fans constantly.

So what is it in cricket and Congress that keeps people interested? Congress has better leaders than opposition? Is the policy of Congress more pro-people than the opposition? Cricketers Are more talented than other athletes? Is BCCI more transparent than other sports bodies?

The fact is that both are thriving standard. The people in India throw every now and then the mandate to Congress more out of disgust to opposition than as an endorsement of policies and programmes of the Congress. Cricket catches people imagination mainly as a result of anarchy that at run time of other sports.

Congress is also a divided House if the opposition. Similarly, BCCI also has a long history of bitter power struggle. But it all boils down to choosing a lesser evil. It's not that the chance to the other party did not come. In politics in India gave people a chance to non-Congress formations for at least three times only disillusioned. Also in the sport came also glory in non-cricketing sports a few times. India won the Hockey World cup in 1975. But rather than captalising on Indian Hockey Federation itself killed by the struggle for power. Indian football team reached the semi-finals of the Olympic Games in 1956, but then the interests of club owners overpowered the national interests. So had the people in India for their faith and their support for Indian Cricketers who won the world cup in 1983. The smart marketers like Dalmiya, now Lalit Modi have since seen that cricket is a company and the global nerve center of cricket.

In politics, they say that there are no permanent enemies. Politicians have been known to protect of mutual interests of friends even in the opposition. Same thing here in BCCI where we have a Arun Jaitley of BJP siding with NCP Supreme Sharad Pawar and Congress spokesperson Rajeev Shukla and national conference leader Farooq Abdulla all find belonging to different parties. So what's the real truth? Politics is like a game of cricket or Is Cricket the political Akhada?