Almost a forthnight later into the controversy as allegations of match fixing, match and performance outcome fixing, money laundering, fraud, cheating, bribery and what not continue to fly fast and free, Twitter continues to be the official media for the parties concerned.

 On Saturday Shashi Tharoor broke his silence in the virtual world when the tweeted that he would feel his resignation was worth it if the truth came out. This was followed by tweets by other personalities like Shah Rukh Khan, Shilpa Shetty and others.

Here’s a list of all the Tweets courtesy Times of India: 

IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, who is under intense pressure to resign from his post after I-T officials began probing IPL finances, on Saturday put out his message on Twitter saying he won’t resign.

Modi said, “People pressurising me to resign – I can tell you will not happen. Let them remove me then.”

“I am not the type to quit. Have faith. Did not create this to just walk away because xyz says what they feel like,” Modi declared.

“What we have done has been there for all of you to see for the past four years. No one can take that away,” he added on Twitter.

“Media is putting stories without verification goes to show how media can misuse there power. Don’t get influenced by all these baseless stories,” he wrote.

“Truth will prevail soon. Trial by media and no chance to present the facts is like the wild west. Wait and the facts will be delivered,” he said.

Tweeting about the IPL controversy, Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan, co-owner of Kolkata Knight Riders wrote, “IPL controversy: fast, furious & too much noise. Like the T20 itself. Hope it gets resolved as fast too for our friend Lalit & franchises.”

“Had a great time. Could not stay back as had a shoot in the morning. All of us smiled through a tinge of sadness,” Shah Rukh added.

Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Vijay Mallya tweeted that despite media bashing it was heart warming to witness applause by owners/ players for Lalit Modi at the awards for the fine job he has done.

“It was so nice to see Lalit smile despite all hell breaking loose in the media. You have to give it to him for making IPL what it is “, actress Preity Zinta, co-promoter of Kings XI Punjab, posted in her tweets.

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty of Rajasthan Royals said she supported full and fair investigations.

“Full and fair investigation of IPL will compel loud mouths to shut up by realizing the true value of sixth largest sporting event in world”, Shilpa said in her tweets. 

Apparently Lalit Modi has agreed to step down after the finals on 25^th April or latest 26^th April. This development happened after Sharad Pawar got BCCI President Shashank Manohar to speak to Lalit Modi on Friday night. According to sources, the two hadn’t spoken to each other for the last ten days and haven’t met face to face for the last 12 days.

A compromise formula has been worked out. Shashank Manohar told Lalit Modi he has to resign or step down. According to Manohar, all the government agencies – the IT dept, the DRI, the CBDT and including the CBI has been knocking on the BCCI doors and the BCCI is under investigation from all fronts. Also the ruckus in parliament, the demand for a joint parliamentary probe by the opposition, the inclusion of other political names were sparked off after Lalit Modi’s spat with Shashi Tharoor and his arbitrary and uncalled for tweets on Twitter.

Lalit Modi who was buying for time and pleading for a few days to prepare his defense lost his footing when his only supporter Sharad Pawar told him in no uncertain terms that he must go.

Maratha stongman and NCP boss Sharad Pawar has stepped in to help Lalit Modi and broker peace between the warring camps. Pawar has been working overnight, burning the midnight oil trying to convince other BCCI senior members to give Modi five more days to prepare his defence.

Sharad Pawar has been trying to get BCCI Board President Shashank Manohar and Lalit Modi to speak to each other one-to-one. Sources say that Shashank Manohar and Lalit Modi haven’t spoken to each other for the last 10 days since things took a drastically bad turn.

Meanwhile according to a report in the Times of India, IPL commissioner Lalit Modi’s role in connection with the purchase of heritage havelis in the protected Amer Palace zone has come under the scanner of the Rajasthan government.

The Rajasthan government is mulling action against both Modi and his wife Minal, who as directors of a company, were allegedly involved in the purchase of the heritage buildings or havelis..

An inquiry by the Jaipur divisional commissioner into the issue has confirmed that the protected havelis were purchased as private properties four years back. Amer Heritage City Construction Pvt Ltd, which later changed its name to Ananda Heritage Hotels, with Lalit Modi and his wife as directors, had purchased four government havelis. Bina Kak, state tourism minister said that she had got the inquiry report.

By Flynn Remedios – futuristicmedianetwork.wordpress.com / iplgate.wordpress.com

 NCP politician and aviation minister Praful Patel’s daughter in charge of hospitality at the IPL was sent a confidential email from Lalit Modi’s office which was later on passed on to Shashi Tharoor. According to TV reports, Poorna Patel who was in charge of hospitality had no business to posses or receive that email. While Praful Patel has vehemently denied that the email was confidential and claims that the email was routine and ‘in public domain’, it is very obvious, say reports that the email was sent to apparently mislead Tharoor and his coterie. 

Poorna Patel was as her father claimed a very junior employee at the IPL and was working for pocket money. The question is why was a junior employee was sent a valuation document received directly from the IPL Commissioner’s office. IPL CEO Sundar Raman is alleged to have sent the email on instructions from Lalit Modi to Praful Patel’s daughter Poorna Patel. He later in the day asserted that he had no idea why Poorna Patel forwarded that email to her father’s office which in turn was forwarded to Shashi Tharoor.

What the IPL CEO forgot to answer was why in the first place did he as CEO send a financial document to a junior employee in the hospitality department.