Please don't push me to take a legal recourse: Bishan Singh Bedi to Delhi cricket body

Legendary cricketer Bishan Singh Bedi has said that if his name from a spectator’s stand at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground will not be removed, he will take legal action against the Delhi and District Cricket Association.

Bedi is upset about the DDCA’s decision to install a statue of the late Arun Jaitley at the Stadium. The former law minister Jaitley also served as the President of DDCA.

His son Rohan Jaitley is the present President of DDCA. Bedi has earlier written a letter to Rohan in which he had severely criticised the DDCA’s decision to install the statue.

His objection is that Arun Jaitley was an administrator and he should not get precedence over the cricketers which unfortunately happens in India. Bedi had written that Arun Jaitley was a politician and so the parliament of India should remember him for posterity.

Referring to his previous letter, Bedi said that his decision garnered support from the cricketing fraternity all over the world, however, DDCA hasn’t responded yet.

He has written that in India “…people still have a right to decide as individuals what they wish to be associated with & where their nameplates can hang with dignity.”

Threatening to take legal action he has said, “Please don't push me to take a legal recourse."

He has also resigned from his primary membership of the cricket body.

Bedi has also questioned Rohan’s inexplicable silence and said that it underlines “guilt of occupying a position of power solely because of your family name, which, you obviously wish to promote, come what may.”

He wrote, “Finally, I hope you will have the basic courtesy to reply to a former cricketer who is not asking for a favour, but wants his cricketing integrity not to be bartered away."