Can any of the politicians who were present at award ceremony gather the crowd at the stadium. Mumbai being a every running city would never give importance to political rallies.
It would've been a tremendous gesture if BCCI had donated part of the prize money to a NGO and the players would've followed suit.
It's unfortunate that politics and cricket are mixed and that too at the expense of ill-informed cricket fans.
This article is a balancing act where "Sidhuism" is used. There should be a more rationale approach to this.
As for rediff, it time and time again beats its extremely low standards of journalism.