‘Cricketers shouldn’t be walking the ramp’

Commercialisation of cricket and auction of the players in the Indian Premier League (IPL) figured in the Lok Sabha discussion on Thursday with a BJP member objecting to the ramp walk by the cricketers.

“Sportspersons are being asked to walk on the ramp because they have been purchased by certain people and business houses”, said BJP MP Sumitra Mahajan while participating in a discussion on Demands for Grants of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.

“Cricketers walk on the ramp with their heads down,” she lamented while referring to the ramp walks organised