Why is that the IPL always have some kind of drama even before it starts ? Last year it was all about the Government not willing to provide the required level of security, and after some words between Lalit Modi (who eventually works for BCCI, which was headed by Sharad Pawar), the whole tournament was moved to South Africa. The Government was never happy with this approach, and considered the movement of the tournament to South Africa as a vote of no-confidence. Of course, it is a different matter that the Government finally got back on Lalit Modi by getting him removed from any official position in the Rajasthan state cricket board in the last election to that board.
This year, there is another major drama that has already happened. The Government is unable to take a strong position on Pakistan inspite of all the provocations, and open support to terrorism inside India. The Government does not even seem to be retaliating in the same coin, and refuses to take any action to even convince the public that it is serious on doing something. However, there is another initiative that is happening in terms of trying to increase people-to-people contact so that the peace process could start at the grassroots level (whether that works is a different matter).
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It was an odd combination earlier, since they are 2 different people entirely. Mulayam Singh is a die-hard Samajwadi who came up in the tough world of politics, building up his power and reputation step by step, bolstered by backward class politics. On the other hand, Amar Singh is the Rajput, the wheeler-dealer, the person who was more at ease with the richer section of society, who brought in the film support to Mulayam Singh (except for Raj Babbar is more of a socialist person himself).
The combination of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh worked for a very long time, and it would be pretty clear that they know a large number of secrets of each other; however, for some time now, Amar Singh must have thought that he was indispensable to the Yadav chieftain (it is also suspected that Amar Singh would have controlled the money flow for Mulayam). But as time passed on, it was also becoming clear that Mulayam had always considered the Samajwadi Party as his personal domain, and how better to demonstrate it than bring his dynasty into politics.
Hence, over a period of time, the son, the brother, the daughter-in-law, all of them were brought into the party, and started the clash of ego. The old supported, with connections of his own would believe that he had a strong role to play in the party, while the family believed that power was only for them, and in this quest, the family always has to win. And so it has happened, with Amar Singh’s resignation from the various party posts now accepted by Mulayam and Amar Singh also finally breaking loose, with the statement that he believed the various action of Ram Gopal Yadav were sanctioned by Mulayam.
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The Telangana issue seems to have got much murkier. To break the fast of TRS chief KCR and to put down the sporadic acts of violence then happening, the Center agreed to the demand for Telangana, and they did not do any kind of consultation with other political parties, something that would be integral to such a momentous decision. Must be that some stupid advisor much have told them that this would put down the TDP into internal division, and help the Congress in the next election. However, the proclamation had 2 major results:
1. It caused the leaders of the whole of Andhra to revolt against this action; apparently to protect the interests of the people of Andhra and Ryalseema, it was in reality for protection of their real estate interests in and around Hyderabad. They in turn caused a groundswell of protests and public anger that is only now starting to die down.