Should Betting Be Legalised?

Good day everyone,

                                 My previous blog article on Yakub’s hanging did stir interest in some and some did respond to me (some even called me crazy for supporting a terrorist). Well today, I would like to express my views and discuss about an event that scrambled the cricket world. Not IPL but the scam that surrounded IPL for two years and almost killed it, until a week back, when the verdict was passed favoring the cricketers in the scam but not to two beloved teams. So, what happened really?

                                                        Cricket is a popular game and IPL has made it a craze and cause of obsession to idiot boxes in India. Why because, every state has its own team and a big management behind it. The management places bids for players across the world in an auction. The players play and a team wins (obviously). The media people earn from advertisements and TRP ratings. The management, where do they get money? When we raise this question, we are surrounded by answers that hangs loose in the air. 

                                                       The answers are simple. They get sponsors and they get money from other sources. Other sources? Betting!!! Betting that made Sreeshanth, Vindoo Dara Singh, Raj Kundra (RR) and Gurunath Meyyapan(CSK) infamous and left the ex BCCI president and current ICC chairman N.Sreenivasan in muddy waters ( poor guy got himself in these problem because of his son in law, Gurunath Meyyapan).

                                                        Betting is considered a crime in India for reasons that aren’t obvious. In UK, the gambling industry contributes around 3 billion pounds (30,000 crores) and 100000 jobs as of today. In a place like India, where alcohol and tobacco are legal and government run, why not betting then? I believe that the people of India are sensible (or they say they are) and sensible enough to decide what is good or bad. Then, why shouldn’t betting be made legal and regulated (most important…REGULATED)? 

            

                                                       Today, as a person born at God’s Own Country and brought up in the Land of Temples, I feel both happiness and sadness in me confluent at this point. Happy, because Sreeshanth was found innocent (who in the meantime, had taken up acting profession and has improved in that field because his acting was superb in the press meet held after the judgment) and sad cause CSK was banned. Needless to say, Rajasthan Royals was also banned. Above all, the image of the famous seasonal game IPL tarnished and breathing its last (I guess). I don’t think the game would be the same without these teams or with the scam clouds looming large over it. If betting would have been legal, wouldn’t the scenario ne entirely different today? 

Question posted? SHOULD BETTING BE LEGALISED AND REGULATED IN INDIA?

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                                                                                                                   -Citizen of God's Own Country

Hi everyone,
                   This is my first blog article and would like to make it interesting to the whole lot. I was traveling today when my mom suddenly sparked a conversation on Yakub Memon's hanging. I was really surprised cause of two things. One, my mom does not usually voice optimistic things about a terrorist ( Ha, no one does, I know) and secondly, it was my own research into the matter. A few minutes of research and I was dumbstruck to find this person to be a lot belonging to the educated group. He was a chartered accountant and while in jail he had got educated and post graduated twice, one in English literature and the other in Political Science. Oh goodness, then what was the crime that he had commited??
                                                     This basic knowledge about this terrorist ( as branded by the government), fired my curiosity to know a little more. He was found guilty of three things.

1. Having financed the terror attack of 1993 Mumbai blasts.
2. Being the brother of the dreaded terrorist, Tiger Memon.
3. Having disclosed all the details to the government to prove his innocence.

                                                  Ha!!! The first crime, as listed above, is the reason for his hanging as per the government. The second one, a crime that he had not committed neither listed in the charge sheet (after all, being the brother of a terrorist is no crime). But, after reading all the news, I think, this crime contributed a large part to his hanging. The third, is the best of all. He had disclosed all the details fearing for his life and his family. He interview with Doordarshan channel, where again he disclosed all of it. He had belief in the investigation agency who had promised him leniency in the verdict.


Verdict: Yakub Memon was hanged at the Nagpur jail on July 30,2015.


Wow, that seems to be a great leniency put forth by the government. Today, many politicians tweet against his hanging. My question is simple and candid: DID HE DESERVE THE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT? and one more......Why was he hanged on his birthday?