The Indian Home Minister has said that the elections are more important than the IPL. No sir, it's not. Most emphatically, not. The elections are an unaffordably expensive exercise in complete irrelevance as far as the people are concerned. Its function is to legitimise which collection of lying criminals gets to rape and suck the life blood out of Bharat Mata. Since no gang has the remotest possibility of winning a majority we will have a coalition of gangs with scores ministers who will want to plunder as swiftly as they can in case it falls apart. With ministers will come clouds of donothing, blood sucking kleptocrats on bloated salaries and Indian people and businesses will end up paying more in bribes to get anything done. Mother India will continue to top the list of most corrupt countries and come bottom in the list of business friendly ones. Fortunately the cricket chiefs have decided that the IPL will be staged in a foreign country, probably England, which is to stage the ICC twenty:20 right afterwards. Last year the government raked in nearly one billion rupees in taxes from the IPL but now this money will go to the British government. There is a high possibility of matches coinciding with election dates and we shall see which the people prefer. Also we will not have to see the mugs of ugly politicians sitting close to Bollywood stars to profit from their popularity. What a relief. Perhaps we should ask the people as to how many would like to throw shoes instead of voting.