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‘Doesn’t know how to hold a bat’: Rahul Gandhi takes a dig ICC chairman Jay Shah

That's The Peg!8 November 20251 min read

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‘Doesn’t know how to hold a bat’: Rahul Gandhi takes a dig ICC chairman Jay Shah · TTP / file photo

The ongoing Bihar Assembly elections is resulting in many war of words. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday launched a sharp attack on the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. He even took a dig at Home Minister Amit Shah’s son, Jay Shah, during a rally in Bhagalpur ahead of the second phase of polling.

Gandhi targeted the ICC chairman and questioned his credentials. He asked the crowd whether anyone could explain how someone who “doesn’t even know how to hold a bat” is qualified to run Indian cricket.

Gandhi said, “Only if you are the son of Adani, Ambani or Amit Shah, can you dream big. Amit Shah’s son (Jay Shah) doesn’t even know how to hold a bat, forget about scoring a run. But he is the chief of cricket. He controls everything in cricket. Why does he control everything? Because of money”.

BJP won the general elections in 2014 and soon after, Jai Shah the joined BCCI (Board of Contol for Cricket in India) in 2015. He became the youngest ever BCCI secretary in 2019 and has been ICC Chairman since December 2024.

On another noter, Gandhi on Wednesday alleged a massive vote fraud in the Haryana Assembly polls last year. He claimed that the photograph of a Brazilian woman (Larissa) appears 22 times in the voter list for Haryana’s Rai Assembly constituency – a seat BJP’s Krishna Gahlawat won, beating the Congress’ Bhagwan Antil by 4,673 votes.

Gandhi also claimed that it was a “centralised operation”. “Somebody fed this lady into the electoral list at a centralised level, not at the booth level,” he added.

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