All Details About Why the Controversy Started, Why are they Fighting , Lalit Modi-Shashi Tharoor At War. Your guide to a story with super-hot ingredients: politics, love, drugs, money, crime, and a bit of cricket How did Union Minister Shashi Tharoor get entangled in the ongoing IPL Controversy? By working behind-the-scenes to cobble up a consortium that bid and bagged the franchise for the Kochi team. What is the controversy all about? The people who constitute the consortium. IPL commissioner Lalit Modi wants to know who they are, but claims even the people who presented the bid documents did not have the answer. He persisted and got the answer, which he then posted on Twitter. What happended after That? One of the stakeholders, Rendezvous Sports World, has given 19 per cent of its 25 per cent equity, to Sunanda Pushkar. So what? She is close to Tharoor. She has been spotted with the minister at various events, including some official functions. Who is Sunanda Pushkar, Whats Her Back...