“Cricketers are now the heroes in Nepal. We must have seen the crowd of people at the airport. In fact, politicians who brave jail, nail and bullets for years are the real heroes,” Gajurel said during a program in Kathmandu on Saturday.
Gajurel further alleged that cricket has spread “anomalies” in the country. “Cricket is an absurdity. We shouldn’t run behind this. How much good the players play cricket, it’s not going to change the face of Nepal,” Gajurel said.
Gajurel was speaking at an interaction program organized at Media International to discuss a novel ‘Samay chakra’ written by novelist Jiban Kumar Bhandari.
Meanwhile, Nepalese national cricket captain Paras Khadka has retorted to the comment of Gajurel in his facebook page. “If Nepalese cricket is bad, I also have to be bad,” Khadka said, sarcastically.
Commenting on today’s effigy burning incident, DSP Bhojdev Khatiwada of Dadeldhura district in far west Nepal said “it went without violence”.
“Local youths gathered here and burned the effigy of CP Gajurel peacefully,” said the police officer.
I didn’t insult Nepalese cricket: CP Gajurel
CPN-Maoist secretary CP Gajurel has claimed that he has not passed any derogatory remark against Nepalese cricket as reported in the media.Issuing a statement Sunday, Gajurel said the media ‘distorted’ his speech delivered in a program in Kathmandu Saturday.
“During my speech, I had actually congratulated the Nepalese cricket team which performed well in the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup in Bangladesh,” Gajurel said in the statement. “I have not spoken anything that insults the Nepalese cricketers,” he added.
Gajurel, who also chairs his party’s foreign affairs department, said, the word ‘absurdity’ which he used in his speech to describe contemporary Nepalese politics, was misinterpreted by media.
“It’s wrong that the media interpreted the word ‘absurdity’ in the context of cricket. It was used for politics actually,” he said.
“I’m extremely distressed, as the feeling of all cricket lovers and cricketers has been hurt due to this ill-publicity,” Gajurel added.
Source::Nepalnews.com
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