Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Over the past 20 years, match-fixing has occasionally upended the gentleman’s game of cricket, which is a terrible thing. On Sunday afternoon, Rahul Gandhi couldn’t help but combine politics with cricket as the 17th season of the Indian Premier League got underway. Speaking at the ‘Save Democracy’ demonstration organized by the Opposition INDIA group at Ramlila Maidan, the Congress leader accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of attempting to rig the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections through “match-fixing.”
Addressing the INDIA bloc’s ‘Save Democracy’ rally at the Ramlila Maidan here, the former Congress chief said this is not an ordinary election but one to save the country’s democracy and Constitution.
“IPL is going on… Are you watching the matches? Have you heard of match-fixing?” Rahul asked the audience.
“When a match is won by putting pressure on umpires, buying off players and scaring captains, it is called match-fixing in cricket. We have Lok Sabha polls coming up. Who selected the umpires? It was Narendra Modi. Before the match started, two players from our team were arrested… In these polls, Narendra Modi is trying to do match-fixing,” Rahul said.
“He is talking of winning 400 seats… but without EVMs, match-fixing, social media and pressurising the press, they won’t cross 180,” Rahul stated.
“Two chief ministers were arrested. What kind of election is this… Match-fixing is being done by PM Modi along with three-four billionaires. This is being done to snatch the Constitution from the poor,” claimed Rahul.
He warned people that If the BJP manages to win the Lok Sabha polls through match-fixing and changes the Constitution, then the country cannot be saved and there will be fire everywhere.
“This election is not just about votes, it is to save the country and the Constitution,” Rahul asserted.
