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Bengal CM

Joining the protest against the ouster of Sourav Ganguly from the Indian Test team, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee today described the move as unjust and 'an insult both to Sourav and all of us'.

"This is unjust... It is an insult to both Sourav and to all of us," Bhattacharjee, an avid cricket fan, told reporters at the Secretariat when asked to comment on the issue

Stating that he had received the news of Ganguly's sacking while in Delhi, Bhattacharjee said he had discussed the matter with the newly-elected BCCI President and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. "I told him, nobody can accept such a decision. Let us see what happens now" .

 

Loksabha speaker

 Speaker Somnath Chatterjee said: great "injustice" had been meted out to the deposed India captain, "who is a great world-class player, due to politics in the game".

"Such incidents will affect the morale of young players and we must take corrective measures," he added

CPI leader Gurudas dasgupta

 

My dear Sharad Pawarji, I am outrageously shocked at the exclusion of Sourav Ganguly from the Indian Test team. His exclusion was not on merit. If the selection committee does not function on merit the future of Indian cricket is bleak. I am sending this letter to you seeking your intervention to protect Indian cricket from narrow politics. If this happens to Sourav Ganguly this can happen to any cricketer in future.

I request you that Sourav should be included in the next Indian cricket team," Mr Dasgupta wrote