Opinion Letters to the editor: RIP Nanda

This refers to ‘SC gives BCCI an ultimatum: Remove Srinivasan or we will’ (IE, March 26). At last, BCCI president N. Srinivasan seems to be on his way out of the organisation. This should have happened earlier so that a fair probe on the IPL betting and match-fixing scandal could take place. The BCCI should promptly ask Srinivasan to step down and avoid further humiliation. It is shameful that the current crop of BCCI office bearers never questioned Srinivasan’s actions or his continuing as president. Cricket administration bodies in India are manned by members of political parties across the spectrum. The fact of the matter is that office bearers of the BCCI should never have been allowed to own IPL teams.
— Vinod Sharma
Moga

The party crisis
Apropos of ‘Congress (R) vs BJP (M)’ by Suhas Palshikar (IE, March 26), the election preparations are so centred around personalities that it seems political parties are redundant. This is bad news for democracy. Only the Left has kept its party structures relevant. But, of course, the Left is stuck in a time warp of its own. A major part of the leadership crisis in the Congress can be traced to Manmohan Singh. He ought to have spoken up more often. Narendra Modi is trying to channel the late Indira Gandhi. He too doesn’t care for his party or institutions.
— Parthasarathy Sen
New Delhi

Played by China
Ashok Choudhary is right in asserting the need to deploy “real hard power” along with “talks and superficial engagement” to tackle the growing Chinese challenge (‘Rising to the China challenge’, IE, March 26). However, the action, or rather inaction, of the present leadership points towards the fact
that the people in power feel more at ease with delaying tactics and prefer procrastinating hard decisions. Whereas the Chinese are working hard to build their military might and warm relations with all our neighbours.
— Ashok K. Ashu
Patiala