After attack on Sri Lankan crickets in
The IPL is scheduled to be held from 10 April to 24 May, while the elections for the Indian parliament's lower house will take place across the country in five different phases between 16 April and 13 May. The tournament organisers had altered their original match schedule after the federal interior minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, cited security problems due to the clash between the elections and the IPL. Even the revised match schedule, which sought to keep matches away from a city or state on the polling dates there, did not secure the home ministry's approval. After a video conference involving the interior ministry and senior police officials of seven states that are scheduled to host matches, the home ministry asked IPL officials to again redraw the schedule.