New Delhi, April 21: Against the backdrop of the furore surrounding the Indian Premier League, Sports Minister M S Gill today said like democracy, all sports should have “openness and free debate in decision-making”.
“India is a fiercely democratic country in which open and free debate and discussion takes place in decision making.
This applies to all the things including sports,” he told reporters outside Parliament here.
On suggestions to nationalise IPL and cricket, Gill said “it is a strange word and a phrase used by someone else.”
When asked about the necessity to clean IPL and cricket, he said, “Democracy is like a sunflower, which needs a lot of sunshine. I think that applies to sports also.”
On whether politicians involved in sporting bodies were misusing their powers, he said “there was no need to say anything.
–PTI