Before the fourth match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia in Ahmedabad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese took a tour of the stadium named after him.
BCCI Secretary Jay Shah presented Modi with his own photograph. According to The Wire’s report, 80,000 tickets for the first day of the match were bought by the BJP at the stadium, which has a capacity of 1,30,000. Has politics started to influence sporting events in India?