Soft on Shukla

IN Media Watch Briefs | 29/05/2013

When gunning for BCCI Chief, N Srinivasan over the IPL scandal, the media forgot to ask Rajeev Shukla: "Sir, doesn't the scandal in IPL, when you are the IPL Commissioner, make you morally responsible too?" Unless, of course, being a minister (or a former journalist) gives him a certain immunity. Shukla has asked Srinivasan to 'step aside' pending probe; what about Shukla himself?

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