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Didi<\/em> is on Team Dada<\/em>. Today, Mamata Banerjee, known as “Didi”<\/em> on her home turf of Bengal, has said she appeals to the Prime Minister to exercise an intervention in support of Sourav Ganguly aka “Dada”.<\/em><\/p>\n The issue is this: Sourav\u00a0Ganguly, 50, has been refused a second term as the boss of the super-powerful BCCI or Board of Control for Cricket in India. Mamata\u00a0Banerjee says “the pride of Bengal” being dropped is “a matter of shame.” Therefore, she says, Sourav\u00a0Ganguly should be allowed to contest the election for International Cricket Council, the globe’s top governing body for the sport. In order to do that, Ganguly will have to be endorsed by the BCCI.\u00a0After the falling out, unless Modi intervenes, as asked for by Mamata\u00a0Banerjee, the BCCI is unlike to endorse him.<\/p>\n Sports is just the cover. Dada<\/em> has become the latest proxy battle between Mamata\u00a0Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and the BJP. Behind the scenes likes a juicy mix of cricket, fame and bare knuckles fight.<\/p>\n The widespread belief is that Sourav\u00a0Ganguly is being punished by the BJP because he spurned its overtures to sign up as its Chief Ministerial candidate for the Bengal election earlier this year. That election was won spectacularly by Mamata\u00a0Banerjee. Both she and her party make the point that Sourav\u00a0Ganguly was allowed a three-year extension as chief of BCCI by the Supreme Court – with that, his term would end on October 23. The same extension was allowed to Jay Shah, BCCI\u00a0treasurer and son of Home Minister Amit Shah. If Jay Shah can continue in office, Team Trinamool argues, why not Sourav\u00a0Ganguly?\u00a0The BCCI is currently pretty much run by the BJP with top posts of Secretary & IPL Chief belonging to close relatives of the party’s\u00a0cabinet ministers.<\/p>\n It’s a classic case of dynasty privilege, or “parivarvaad”<\/em>, said Derek O’ Brien, TMC parliamentary party leader in Rajya Sabha, speaking to me for this column. He said he echoed a poster he had shared on social media which was snarky about Shah and Arun Singh Dhumal, brother of Sports Minister Anurag Thakur.<\/p>\n I am Jay Shah, once more becoming @BCCI<\/a> secretary. My papa is Union Home Minister @AmitShah<\/a><\/p>\n I am Arun Singh Dhumal, new Chairman of IPL. My elder bhaiya is Union Sports Minister @ianuragthakur<\/a><\/p>\n We are examples👇of BJP’s ParivarVaad mukt Bharat & @narendramodi<\/a> ‘s DYNASTS CLUB pic.twitter.com\/Lcgp69y6pn<\/a><\/p>\n\n