The league stage of the IPL 2026 tournament ends on May 24. The playoff stage is very close, but before announcing the venue of the final and other playoff matches, a new problem has arisen in front of BCCI. Since the IPL 2025 title was won by Royal Challengers Bangalore and the final of the next season is played at the home ground of the defending champion team. According to the plan, the final of IPL 2026 is to be held in Bengaluru, but due to the problem of MLA ticket, this time the title match may not be organized in Bengaluru.
BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia has said that the playoff schedule will be announced very soon. Now, quoting news agency ANI, a BCCI source said that organizing playoff and final matches is possible in Punjab and Karnataka. The final should be held at the home ground of last year’s winner RCB, but the MLA ticket issue is creating problems in Bengaluru. If a solution is not found, then the final will be organized in some other city instead of Bengaluru.
What is the whole matter?
In fact, Congress MLA Vijayanand Kashapanavar from Hungund assembly seat of Karnataka had publicly demanded that every MLA should get at least five tickets for IPL matches. He believed that MLAs are representatives elected by the public, hence they should be treated as VIPs, so that they do not have to stand in queues like common people. Many other MLAs supported this demand.
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Seeing the seriousness of the matter, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar announced a compromise under which each MLA was allotted three tickets each at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. The matter did not rest here either, because to prevent misuse of tickets, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said that only MLAs and their family members can use the allotted tickets.
At present, there is no clarity regarding whether the final match of IPL 2026 will be played at MChinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru or not. There are about two weeks left for the playoff stage, but there is no clue about the schedule yet.
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