Posted on: 29-04-10 16:30:25
The greatest player of Indian Cricket Ever is Mr.Lalit Modi.
He has it all. All the monies, wine and ALL the BEST Women!.
http://www.itimes.com/public/groups/Player-of-the-year-Lalit-Modi/album/Player-of-the-year-Lalit-Modi_29328
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Sunny Leone a true Canadian DESI now back in India !.
Got this in an email today. Dont know how much of it is true or not.. but very intresting article on Lalit Modi
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Lalit Kumar Modi, (born November 29, 1963, Delhi, India)is an Indian cricket administrator. and a businessman. He is best known as the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League, Chairman of the Champions League (since September 2008), Vice President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) since 2005 and Vice President of the Punjab Cricket Association. Modi is also the President and Managing Director of Modi Enterprises and the Executive Director of Godfrey Phillips India.
In 2010, Lalit Modi was suspended as Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League
Biography
Lalit Modi was born in a wealthy and successful business family. His father Krishan Kumar Modi is Chairman of Modi Enterprises, a Rs.40 billion business empire which was founded by his grandfather, Raj Bahadur Gujarmal Modi(Founder of town Modinagar). He attended boarding schools like Bishop Cotton School in Shimla and others in Nainital. He disliked school, and often ran away. After his schooling, he was determined to continue with his studies in the United States. He scored well in the SAT and chose to skip the school-leaving examinations, which were required for entrance to colleges and universities in India. Subsequently, he gained a place at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States.[8] Modi is a vegetarian and a teetotaller. Modi had claimed the top slot as the highest tax payer in the country for the 2009-2010 fiscal. He paid Rs 8 crore in the first half of the current fiscal.
Personal and family life
He is currently married to Minal, who he met while he was a student in the US and she was already married and a friend of his mother. She was nine years his senior and was then living in London with her family. Minal got a divorce, and she and Lalit were married in Mumbai despite his family’s initial disapproval.
Modi has had two children named Ruchir and Aliya from his marriage with Minal. Son Ruchir lives in Mumbai with Modi and studies at the American School of Bombay. Aliya currently studies in Switzerland. Minal has a daughter named Karima from her earlier marriage. Karima is married and lives in London presently. Karima has a daughter named Arya.
Lalit and his family sometimes travel in a private 13-seat Bombardier Challenger 300 jet. He claims to have purchased it in 2008 for $20 million (Rs. 96 crore) but the DNA (newspaper) has reported that the aircraft is owned by somebody else, and its Rs. 3 lakh/hour operating fees are paid for by the IPL.
Criminal convictions
On March 1, 1985, while a sophmore at Duke University, Modi was arrested on charges of conspiracy to traffic cocaine and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. On April 2, 1985, Modi and another student were indicted on second-degree kidnapping, a misdemeanor charge of assault inflicting serious injury and conspiracy to kidnap. Modi pleaded guilty to the crime when the case was heard in the Durham County court, North Carolina and later entered a plea bargain, which resulted in a suspended two year prison sentence.[1Modi moved the court again in 1986 after he graduated from Duke University, he sought permission to move to India on health grounds. The court ordered: "As a fact the defendant has been hospitalized. His doctors indicate that a return to his home in India would facilitate his recovery… The said probation be modified to unsupervised probation. As a condition, the defendant is to perform 200 hours of community service by 1990. He may return to his home…"
An article in Tehelka magazine alleges that Modi was involved in a court case for cocaine abuse as recently as 2006 in the UAE.
Business Interests
Modi is the President and Managing Director of Modi Enterprises, an industrial conglomerate created and run by his family.
Modi has been the Executive Director of Godfrey Phillips India since 1992, one of India's largest tobacco company. The company is jointly promoted by the Modi Enterprises and Philip Morris International.
Modi started a 10-year joint venture with Walt Disney Pictures in 1993, called Modi Entertainment Networks (MEN), to broadcast some of Disney's content in India including Fashion TV
In 1994, he became the pan-India distributor of ESPN on a 5-year contract. His job was to collect money from the cable wallas in India in exchange for them broadcasting ESPN. However, ESPN was having "money issues" and took Modi to court. In 1997 ESPN established its distribution team, before the contract was due to expire in 1999.
Modi's joint venture with Walt Disney Pictures, called Modi Entertainment Networks (MEN), gave Modi a 10-year contract to distribute Disney's programmes in India.[He also has a joint venture with Fashion TV
In 2002, he launched an online lottery business in Kerala called Sixo.[
He later went into the real estate business in Rajasthan, with a company called Amer Heritage City Construction Pvt Ltd, his wife Minal, is a director.
Cricket Administration
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association
He joined the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association in 1999 (when it had no cricket stadiums) after promising to build a cricket stadium that would be used to play cricket in the Indian summer. In 2000, he started raising concerns with the way things were run in Himachal, and was booted out when Mr. Dhumbar became the Chief Minister of HP and installed his son as the President of the HP Cricket Association.
Rajasthan Cricket Association and BCCI
He then tried to join the Rajasthan Cricket Association. He became a member of the Nagore district. He allegedly submitted his name to the RCA as Lalit Kumar, because he did not want to be "cut-off" like he was with the HPCA.
He raised concerns with the way RCA was run by the Rungta family for 40 years. There were 32 district associations in Rajasthan and 57 members, of which all 57 were related to the Rungta family. There were no elections in the RCA for 40 years.
He eventually became president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association, with the help of then CM of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje. They changed the law in Rajasthan, effective 18 Aug 2004, so that the RCA becomes a more democratic organization with elections. He then ran for president of RCA and won. This gave him a seat on the BCCI.
In 2005, Modi figured in a power struggle that resulted in Sharad Pawar, an influential politician and national cabinet minister, ousting former Indian cricket supremo and International Cricket Council chief Jagmohan Dalmiya in BCCI elections. Modi was then appointed Vice-President of the BCCI. Heavily involved in the commercial side of the Board's activities, he is reported to have increased their revenues sevenfold between 2005 and 2008, with the BCCI then reporting annual revenues of over 1 billion USD. Modi was defeated by Union Minister C. P. Joshi in the Rajasthan Cricket Association elections.
Punjab Cricket Association
Currently he is the vice-president of the Punjab Cricket Association under the patronage of former Board of Control for Cricket in India President I.S. Bindra.
Indian Premier League
In 2008, he was instrumental in launching the Indian Premier League (IPL), a league based around Twenty20 cricket, where each team is limited to batting for a maximum of 20 overs.
In 2009, Modi was instrumental in moving the IPL to South Africa after the dates of the tournament clashed with the Indian general election, 2009 and the Union Minister of Home Affairs P. Chidambaram could not commit to the security of the tournament.
In 2010, Modi oversaw the bidding process and creation of two new teams in the Indian Premier League. Pune and Kochi were declared the new franchises. A twitter entry by Modi declaring the stakeholders of the Kochi IPL Team allegedly breaching confidentiality agreements set in motion highly controversial set of events which led to the resignation of the then Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Dr. Shashi Tharoor.
In 2010, Modi was suspended as Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League. A suspension notice and a 34-page letter stating 22 charges of impropriety were served via email, to Modi. Modi was accused of, among other things, accepting a multi-million dollar kickback while assigning the telecast rights for IPL matches, and attempting to rig the bids for the two new IPL teams that were auctioned the previous month
Allegations of corruption
A confidential income tax department report into Modi has revealed that he holds a silent stake in 3 IPL teams - the Rajasthan Royals, Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab.Furthermore, there are controversies as to whether Modi was involved in match fixing and betting in IPL games. He is also under fire for helping his family and friends buy stakes in IPL teams.
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ललित मोदी
आयपीएलचे संयोजक
गाजियाबादच्या जवळच्या गावात १९३३मध्ये रायबहादूर सेठ गुजरमल मोदी यांनी पहिली शुगर फॅक्टरी सुरू केली. ती घटना त्या गावाचा कायापालट करणारी ठरली. त्यानंतर त्यांनी तिथे असंख्य कारखाने, संस्था उभारल्या. त्याचमुळे या गावाला मोदीनगर हे नाव मिळालं. त्यांचा मुलगा कृष्णकुमार (केके
मोदी आणि सून बीना यांनीही या उद्योगाचा पसारा वाढवला. पण त्यांचा मुलगा ललित मात्र याला अपवाद ठरणार, असं वाटत होतं. कारण त्याची लक्षणचं तशी होती.
केके मोदींना तीन मुलं, दुसरा ललित. अभ्यासात त्याला कधीच रस नव्हता. शाळेतून तो कितीदा पळाला आणि किती शाळा बदलल्या, हे त्याच्या घरच्यांनाही सांगता येणार नाही. शिमला आणि नैनितालच्या बोर्डिंग स्कूलमधून पळून जाण्याच्या नव्यानव्या शकला तो लढवायचा. ड्रायव्हिंग लायसन्स नसताना दिल्लीच्या रस्त्यांवरून वडिलांची मसिर्डीज बेफाम पळवायचा. त्याच्या अशा वागण्याने शाळेचा दाखला मिळणं अवघडच झालं. भारतातल्या कुठल्याही कॉलेजमध्ये त्याला अॅडमिशन मिळणार नव्हतंच. अशा वेळी त्याला अमेरिकेला पाठवायचं ठरलं. त्याने सॅट (स्कॉलॅस्टिक अॅप्टिट्यूट टेस्ट पास केली तेव्हा आई-वडिलांचा जीव भांड्यात पडला. त्याची रवानगी ड्यूक युनिव्हसिर्टीत झाली. पण ललितचं बेफाम वागणं कायम राहिलं, ते आजतागायत.
अमेरिकेत असताना मर्सिडिज हवी, असा हट्ट ललितने धरला. मोदी घराण्यात पैशाला तोटा नव्हता. वडिलांनी खूप समजावलं पण तो अडून बसला. शेवटी वडिलांनी त्याला पाच हजार डॉलर्स दिले आणि कोणती तरी साधी गाडी घेऊन टाक, असं सांगितलं. त्या पैशात हफ्त्यावर मसिर्डिज आणणारा मोदी घराण्यातला तो पहिला मुलगा ठरला. आपलं म्हणणं कोणत्याही परिस्थितीत खरं करणारे ललित मोदी आजवर तेच करत राहिलेत.
अमेरिकेतही त्याचं अभ्यासात कधी लक्ष लागलं नाही. अशातच 'उद्योगपती मोदींचा मुलगा ललित ड्रग्ज प्रकरणात अटकेत' ही बातमी भारतातल्या मीडियापर्यंत पोहोचलीच. ते वर्षं होतं १९८५. डरहॅम कोर्टात त्याच्या विरुद्ध ड्रग्ज बाळगणं, अपहरण आणि फरार होण्याच्या आरोपाखाली खटला दाखल झाला. शिक्षा कमी व्हावी, म्हणून त्याने स्वत:हून आरोप मान्य केला. त्या प्रकरणात त्याला दोन वर्ष तुरुंगवास आणि दंड सुनावला गेला. तो आणि त्याचे कुटुंबीय अजाण वयात झालेली चूक म्हणून ते प्रकरण विसरा, असं सांगतात. पण ललितचे विरोधक आणि मीडिया तसं होऊ देत नाही.
ललितने आणखी एक धक्का घरच्यांना दिला. मीनलवर माझं प्रेम आहे आणि मी तिच्याशीच लग्न करणार, असं त्यानं जाहीर केलं. घरच्यांनी याला विरोध केला. कारणही तसं होतं. मीनल ही त्याच्या आईची मैत्रीण होती. ती त्याच्यापेक्षा नऊ वर्षांनी मोठी होती. आणि ती लंडनमध्ये पती आणि मुलीबरोबर राहत होती. मीनलशी लग्न करण्यातही ललितने मोठी दूरदृष्टी दाखवली होती. मीनल ही मुंबईतील कोट्याधीस मीलमालक धनजीभाई यांची मुलगी. ललितने जे ठरवलं होतं, ते तो करणारच हे सगळ्यांनाच माहीत होतं. त्यामुळे मुंबईत झालेल्या लग्नाला त्याच्या कुटुंबियाला जावंच लागलं.
ललितने शिक्षण तर पूर्ण केलं नाही पण फिलिप मॉरिस ही सिगारेट कंपनी आणि स्टी लॉडर या कॉस्मेटिक कंपनीशी सौदेबाजी करण्यात यश मिळालं. आयटीसी कंपनीचा संचालक होईपर्यंतची त्याची वाटचाल म्हणजे धंद्यातले खाचखळगे शिकण्याचे दिवस होते. पुढे तो एन्टरटेनमेन्ट इंडस्ट्रीत शिरला. डिस्नेच्या सहकार्याने त्यानं इएसपीएनला भारतात आणलं. त्यानंतर तर थेट स्टारचे सवेर्सर्वा रूपर्ट मरडॉकशी टक्कर देण्याचंही धाडस केलं.
क्रिकेट हा देशात सगळ्यात जास्त पैसा मिळवून देणारा खेळ आहे, हे त्याच्या लक्षात आलं ते तेव्हाच. आजही त्याचे आवडते खेळ फूटबॉल आणि टेनिस आहेत. आजही त्याचा आवडता खेळाडू कोण असं विचारलं त्याचं उत्तर असतं, पेेले आणि बियॉन बोर्ग. क्रिकेटचं तंत्र त्याला कळत नाही पण त्यातले 'इन्स आणि आऊट' पुरते माहीत आहेत!
क्रिकेटचा सवेर्सर्वा होण्याचं स्वप्न पूर्ण करण्यासठी त्याने सारे मार्ग अवलंबले. बीसीसीआयपर्यंत पोहोचण्यासाठी फसवेगिरी केल्याचे आरोप झाले. बीसीसीआयने दरवाजा दाखवल्यावर त्याने राजस्थान क्रिकेट असोशिएशनमध्ये शिरकाव केला. स्वत:ची ओळख लपवण्यासाठी मोदी हे आडनावही लावलं नाही. राजस्थान क्रिकेट असोशिएशनमध्ये त्याने केलेल्या या फसवणुकीचं प्रकरण अजूनही कोर्टात आहे.
अर्थात, आजोबांच्या काळापासूनची ग्वाल्हेर घराण्याशी ओळख मोदीला मोठं होण्यात कामी आली. राजस्थानच्या मुख्यमंत्री वसुंधराराजे यांच्या निकटवर्तियांमध्ये त्याचा समावेश झाला. जयपूरच्या पंचतारांकित हॉटेलमध्ये मोदी उतरला असं कळताच लाल दिव्यांच्या गाड्या, आयएएस, आयपीएस अधिकाऱ्यांच्या रांगा दिसत. राजस्थानात त्याचा उल्लेख 'सुपर मुख्यमंत्री' असा व्हायला लागला. त्यामुळेच २००८ची विधानसभा निवडणूक काँग्रेसच्या 'ललित मोदी कोण आहे?' या पोस्टरबाजीने रंगली. मोदीचे जमीनघोटाळे निवडणुकीत बाहेर आले. भाजपच्या पराभवाचं मोदी हे प्रमुख कारण ठरलं.
मोदी म्हणजे नेमकं कोण, या प्रश्नाला तेव्हाही उत्तर मिळालं नव्हतं. ते मिळालं ते भारतीय क्रिकेट नियामक मंडळाचे अध्यक्ष जगमोहन दालमिया यांचा पराभव झाल्यावर. त्यासाठी शरद पवारांशी हातमिळवणी करणंही मोदींना फायद्याचं ठरलं. त्यांनी बोर्डाचा महसूल सातवरून सत्तर कोटींवर नेल्यावर तर ही मैत्री आणखी घट्ट झाली.
मोदीने बीसीसीआयला पैशाचा छापखाना बनवला. क्रिकेटचं माकेर्टिंग कसं करायचं, हे त्याला ठाऊक आहे. म्हणूनच तर इंग्लडचा संघ भारत दौऱ्यावर आल्यावर कॉमेंटेटर्सना, टीका करायची नाही, वाद होतील असं बोलायचं नाही अशी इशारावजा सूचनाच केली. त्याच्या याच वृत्तीमुळेच माइक आर्थरटर्नने त्याच्यावर 'रूथलेस' अशी टीका केली होती.
मोदी कुटुंबातल्या या पराभूतपुत्राला स्वत:ला प्रूव्ह करायचं होतं. त्यामुळे तो भन्नाट कल्पना वास्तवात आणण्यासाठी काहीही करायला तयार असतो. ते करण्याची पद्धत मात्र प्रत्येकाला पटेल अशी नाही. मोदीबाबत तो 'दोस्त का दोस्त, दुश्मनों का दुश्मन' असं म्हटलं जातं. शाहरूख खान, प्रिटी झिंटा अशा स्टार्सशी त्याची दोस्ती आहे. पण त्याने पाहिलेला शेवटचा सिनेमा 'शोले' आहे. तो पाहून आता पंचवीस वर्षांपेक्षा जास्त वर्षं झालीत. शाकाहारी आणि निव्यर्सनी असलेल्या मोदीला बहुधा तारे पाहण्याचा छंद असावा. कारण जुहूच्या अलिशान बंगल्याच्या हॉलमध्ये त्याने मोठ्ठी दुबीर्ण ठेवलीये.
त्याचा मुलगा रूचिर मुंबईत शिकतोय तर मुलगी अलिया स्वित्झर्लंडमध्ये. त्याच्या सावत्र मुलीचा नवरा म्हणजे जावई गौरव बर्मन आणि मेव्हणा महेश चेलाराम 'राजस्थान रॉयल'चा स्टेकहोल्डर आहे. त्याच्या पत्नीला लोकांनी पाहिलं नाही, पण जेव्हा दक्षिण अफ्रिकेत आयपीएल स्पर्धा झाली तेव्हा ती न्यूयॉर्कमध्ये कॅन्सरवर उपचार घेण्यासाठी गेल्याचं मीडियापर्यंत पोहोचलं होतं. त्याची आई बीना दिल्लीत रेस्टाँरट चेन चालवते. तर भाऊ समीर औद्योगिक ग्रुपचा संचालक आहे. मोठी बहीण चारू भारतीया दिल्लीत अमेरिकन संस्थेच्या सहकार्याने खासगी युनिव्हसिर्टीची संचालिका झाली आहे. पण सगळ्यांपेक्षा आपण 'वेगळे' आहोत, हे ललित मोदी सतत दाखवत असतो. मोदीने क्रिकेटमध्ये कोट्यवधींची... नव्हे कोट्यवधी डॉलर्सची उड्डाणं घेतलेली पाहून 'अंडरवर्ल्ड'चं लक्षही स्वाभाविकच त्याच्याकडे गेलं. मध्यंतरी दाऊद इब्राहीमच्या सांगण्यावरून त्याच्या हत्येचा प्लॅन शिजला होता, असं म्हणतात. आता तर यात गुंतलेला पैसा तर अंडरवर्ल्डचा नाही ना, अशी शंका घेतली जाते.
नागपूरमध्ये जमीन घोटाळा प्रकरणात त्याला काही महिन्यांपूवीर्च जामीन मिळालाय. त्याच्याकडे 'फॅशन टीव्ही इंडिया'ची मालकी आहे. या चॅनलची अध्यक्षा मिशेल अॅडम्स लवकरच त्याच्यावर फसवणूक, खंडण्या, कॉपीराइटचं उल्लंघन यासह अनेक गंभीर गुन्हे दाखल करण्याच्या तयारीत आहे. शिवाय राजस्थानमधल्या क्रिकेट अकादमीतल्या आर्थिक घोटाळ्याची चौकशी सुरू आहे. पण पैसा आणि पॉवर असली की मोठं होण्यापासून कोणी कोणाला रोखू शकत नाही. मोदीच्या बाबतीत ते खरं ठरलं इतकंच
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Originally posted by amit13774
Got this in an email today. Dont know how much of it is true or not.. but very intresting article on Lalit Modi
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Criminal convictions
On March 1, 1985, while a sophmore at Duke University, Modi was arrested on charges of conspiracy to traffic cocaine and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. On April 2, 1985, Modi and another student were indicted on second-degree kidnapping, a misdemeanor charge of assault inflicting serious injury and conspiracy to kidnap. Modi pleaded guilty to the crime when the case was heard in the Durham County court, North Carolina and later entered a plea bargain, which resulted in a suspended two year prison sentence.[1Modi moved the court again in 1986 after he graduated from Duke University, he sought permission to move to India on health grounds. The court ordered: "As a fact the defendant has been hospitalized. His doctors indicate that a return to his home in India would facilitate his recovery… The said probation be modified to unsupervised probation. As a condition, the defendant is to perform 200 hours of community service by 1990. He may return to his home…"
An article in Tehelka magazine alleges that Modi was involved in a court case for cocaine abuse as recently as 2006 in the UAE.
If true, then he is the prince of darkness!
There is no doubt that Mr. Lalit Modi has a very chequered history. However, his expose of Shahi Tharoor and his corruption was very good. Unfortunately focus shifted to Modi and thus Shashi Tharoor escaped without much damage. Any one who is familiar with UN jobs would know that it is hot bed of corruption, nepotism and influence peddling. Unless one has political connection at very high level, UN job is impossible. Modi might have his own reasons to expose Tharoor but that has helped India. Mr. Modi would pay for whatever crimes he has committed but Tharoor expose was really good. That focused, at least for the time being, on crime family of India Gandhis and their Shikhandi MMS.
