Rural T20 OR GP T20 OR just a mere election compaign?

As we are discussing heavily about IPL T20 and other formats of cricket, I read an article about another tournament going on in the election constituency of Rahul Gandhi (AMETHI). Purely on numbers, this could be the largest cricket extravaganza ever on earth. But is this really cricket?

Numbers suggest:

1. number of teams playing the IPL is eight but in the rural Twenty20, the total number of teams is 1857.
2. The IPL has only 128 players but the rural Twenty20 has attracted more than 27,000 players.
3. The IPL has a schedule of 59 games in two months while Rahul Gandhi's Twenty20 tournament has 150 matches played every day.

Cricketnext.com reports:

Majority of the boys who are playing cricket hardly get to see television as Rahul Gandhi's constituency Amethi gets only five to six hours of electricity every day.

In my opinion this is not more than just a rigorous election campaign. In the title of the blog, GP T20 meant Gandhi Pariwar T20 .

It is not that I favor congress a bit, but I am impressed with the medium they have chosen for their own self interest. Cricket is the strongest medium that can be most easily spread out. They have also launched it at a time when IPL fever is catching whole nation, so they have also got the timing correct.

Are we going to see the following tournaments in the coming days?

JMM T20 in Jharkhand Villages

BJP GUJJU T20 in Gujrat Villages

CPI T20 in Bengal Villages

BSP T20 in UP Villages

and many more like that?

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