The cabinet minister and the leader of Nationalist Congress Party Mr. Sharad Pawar who is 70-year-old, has Agriculture, Food and Consumer Affairs portfolios. He is also the president of the ICC ( Inter-national Cricket council ). Recently a shuffle in the cabinet ministry was expected and Mr. Sharad Pawar had informed our prime minister that he is not able to manage all the 3 portfolios along with his party leadership and also being the president of ICC. He had asked the prime minister to relieve him from 2 portfolios and requested for the 2 portfolios to be given to his party members.
In the first place if he was not able to manage the workload why should he become the president of ICC, is he a cricket player? He is well identified as a politician and so he should focus on politics more than cricket. There are lot of people to run the ICC. Our politicians have been involved in the BCCI management for a long time, the main reason for politicians to involve in the BCCI management is the BCCI’ s wealth and income. I wish only the former cricketers should be involved in the administration of the cricket board ( BCCI doesn’t belong to our government and its an independent body )
Lets get practical, Can a 70 year old man do justice to these many responsibilities?
Another question is why should a person handle more than one portfolio? Don’t we have enough MPs? There are 543 MPs in our parliament and we less than 40 portfolios
If we allot one MP for each portfolio , we will still have close to 500 MPs without any portfolio. If the number of portfolios are more than the number of MPs then it will make sense giving more than one portfolio to one MP.
My opinion is :
1. One MP should not be given more than one portfolio.
2. Mr.Sharad Pawar should first resign his ICC presidenship.
3. Politicians should not be involved in the administration of cricket board or the cricket
board should be taken over by the government and should be brought under the
ministry of sports.
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