Sourav Ganguly’s Exclusion from the ODI Team Challenged!

While reading today’s The Hindu Newspaper, I came across a article where a fool challenged the exclusion of Ganguly from the ongoing Hutch Cup between India and Pakistan in the Supreme court! I was surprised to read how foolish people can be. Moreover the writ petition was filled by a TV journalist.

Here is the article:

Ganguly issue: plea for early hearing rejected

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to entertain the application for early hearing of the petition challenging the exclusion of former skipper Sourav Ganguly from the Indian cricket team for the ODI series against Pakistan.

A Bench comprising Justice G.P. Mathur and Justice Dalveer Bhandari on Friday declined to fix the petition for early hearing, saying that scientists, doctors, engineers and other professionally qualified persons were not being given due place in the country as compared to cricketers.

“India will not be at the receiving end if it does not play matches” the Court observed while turning down the plea for early hearing of the writ petition filed by a TV journalist.

The petitioner’s counsel, V.N. Sharaf, contended that the petition shall become infructuous as the ongoing ODI series between India and Pakistan may be over by the time the matter is listed for hearing.

The petitioner has sought directions to the BCCI Selection Committee to place before the court the minutes of the meeting that picked the Indian team for the ODI series.

The petitioner also alleged that Ganguly was a victim of board politics and had been dropped from the team on considerations other than merit as he had been doing well both in domestic cricket and in the recent three-test series against Pakistan. - UNI

Source: The Hindu

The Bench correctly observed two things, which I am quoting again:
* “India will not be at the receiving end if it does not play matches”
* “Scientists, Doctors, Engineers and other professionally qualified persons were not being given due place in the country as compared to cricketers”

I am totally surprised as how a man (a TV Journalist) go such distance to file a writ in the apex court!! Some people in India seem to have no other job other than filling PILs in the courts. Sachin’s Ferrari was also an issue and same with Kushboo’s remark on pre-martial sex.

Ganguly must be a happy man, so much people to his support who file writ petitions, stage darna, burn effigies, go hunger strikes, and what not!