Internet Desk: A day after senior BJP leader Shanta Kumar demanded cancellation of the T20 Cricket World Cup match between India and Pakistan to be played in Dharamsala on March 19, Congress leader and IPL Chairman Rajiv Shukla on Sunday said there should be no politics over cricket.
Kumar had yesterday said the Indo-Pak cricket match should be cancelled as a mark of respect to the martyrs and soldiers from the state. Keeping in view the recent terror attacks in Pathankot and Gurdaspur, if peace talks with Pakistan could be deferred, why the cricket match cannot be cancelled, he had said.
Earlier, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh had also voiced his concern over the proposed match in Dharamsala.
There has been lot of speculations going on regarding the Indo-Pak bilateral series which is yet tobe decided as the Central Government is still to give the green signal. There is also a huge question mark over the inclusion of the Pakistani players in the IPL as whether they will ever get a chance to play in the IPL since the first edition in 2008.