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The Lalit Modi Controversy

The Lalit Modi Controversy By  Deepak Parvatiyar June 18, 2015 5.00 / 5  (100.00%)  2 votes Published in elections.in (http://www.elections.in/blog/the-lalit-modi-controversy/) There is no relationship whatsoever between Lalit Modi and Narendra Modi except for the common surname. They don’t even belong to the same caste. Yet, in popular parlance, it has taken a Modi to take on a Modi!  If at all Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces his first ever credibility test, it is because of the man who shares his surname and in fact made it famous much before Narendra came into centre stage of public glare. Today, Lalit Modi is not just a business honcho-turned controversial cricket administrator, but he is also wanted in 16 Enforcement Directorate cases in India. He ran away to Britain in 2010 as he faced probe into alleged foreign exchange regulation violations in the Indian Premier League tournament that he had organized in South Africa in 2009. Subsequently, the er