This Article is From May 05, 2010

Lalit Modi and friends on twitter

New Delhi: It was on twitter where the first breeze of controversy surrounding the Indian Premier League (IPL) began. The tweets by Lalit Modi on the owners of the new Kochi team quickly blew up into the perfect storm that is raging now not just over the IPL but politicians too.

With only a day to go before Modi is likely to be to formally voted out as Chairman and Commissioner of the IPL, Modi is tweeting his self-defense. He has said he will skip Monday's governing council meeting.

The actors who co own three IPL teams are standing by Modi on twitter.

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