Amit Shah today sidelined the conflict with Bishan Singh Bedi over the unveiling of Arun Jaitley’s statue on Feroz Shah Kotla grounds, saying that there are “two kinds of people in cricket”
“One is the people who participate. The other is the people who create an environment to play cricket. Their contribution is a lot, too. or that we are unveiling statue,” Mr Shah said while unveiling the statue on Arun Jaitley’s birth anniversary.
The former minister Arun Jaitley and DDCA chief passed away a year ago in August. But the possibility of his statue at Delhi’s first cricket ground had sparked a major debate, with Bishen Singh Bedi firing off a letter to the cricket body stating his objections.
In a letter to Rohan Jaitley, the son of Arun Jaitley, the spin legend renounced his membership of the cricket body and asked him to delete his name from the spectator stand, named after him in 2017.
Bedi wrote that because late Arun Jaitley was mainly a politician, it is the Parliament that needs to “remember him for posterity.”
“Sporting arenas need sporting role models. The place of the administrators is in their glass cabins,” he continued in his scathing message.
