Delhi has been all over the news for the global pandemic and has been creating buzz for it’s shrieking COVID-19 cases with people not only testing positive but recording thousands dying every day in the city.
The latest edition of the IPL finally brings it’s scheduled match in Delhi as well, that will be hosted at Arun Jaitley Stadium on May 28.
The stadium is encompasses a hospital and crematory ground in it’s vicinity, Lok Nayak Hospital – 1km radius and Nigambodh Ghat- 3.5kms radius. People have taken their twitter handles to express their grief and have condemned the functionality of IPL by calling them insensitive and inappropriate, while many have defended this and flooded the social platforms with their responses calling this a distraction factor to get past this rough time. The opinion still remains to be subjective but people voicing out against it are large in number.
Focusing on the real concern brought out by a few people that suggest; using up of ambulances, being tested twice a day and getting all the special benefits that a common man cannot avail is unfair and unjustified. “Resource allocation” being the biggest need of the hour is directly going in the hands of the IPL.
This finally brings us with night curfews, weekend lockdowns and over thousands of cases incoming per day, is it really appropriate to be hosting the IPL in Delhi at this point?
When we were children our parents told us not to play in the street when there was a funeral in the neighbourhood out of respect for the dead and the mourning.
The IPL plays in Delhi today.— Faye DSouza (@fayedsouza) April 28, 2021
Delhi is devastated by Covid, and thousands are dying. Delhi is hosting today's IPL cricket match. What a country! What it's priority!
— Ashok Swain (@ashoswai) April 28, 2021
