IPL was mired in a fresh controversy with Rajasthan Government accusing Lalit Modi of deliberately dropping Jaipur as venue.

But the charge was denied by the IPL bosses.

Despite frantic efforts by the organisers to salvage the tournament, IPL now still remains uncertain.

Giving a political twist to the issue, the Rajasthan Government lambasted IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi for omitting Jaipur as a venue in the revised schedule of the Twenty20 event and said the people of the state will never forgive him for this.

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Shanti Dhariwal, the state's Home Minister, accused Modi of acting against the state because he recently lost the election in the Rajasthan Cricket Association.

"Modi has pulled IPL out of Jaipur. We wanted only two out of six dates rescheduled," Dhariwal said.

"He never negotiated with us, never discussed with us. In election one party wins and the other loses like in matches but that doesn't mean you leave the state and walk away with matches. The people of Rajasthan will never forgive him for this," he fumed.

Terming the charges of the Rajasthan Home Minister as "unfair", the IPL clarified that the changes were necessitated because of certain constraints over security.

"There have been media reports about the Rajasthan Royals home matches being deliberately shifted out from the Pink City. To set the record straight Jaipur was one of the first venues to express interest in hosting IPL and the initial schedule that IPL submitted to the Home Ministry had five matches scheduled in Jaipur," IPL CEO Sundar Raman said in a media statement.

States send feedback on IPL schedule

"However the confirmation from State Govt of Rajasthan had a rider - which required central forces support. The Ministry of Home Affairs had made it clear that no central forces will be available," he explained.

"The schedule has since undergone multiple iterations. We are operating with constraints and it would be unfair to call this a deliberate effort on the part of IPL for chances in the schedule that have been necessitated," he said.

The IPL organisers have dropped Jaipur alongwith Delhi and Visakhapatnam as a venue in the revised schedule submitted to the Home Ministry which is yet to give the green signal to the high-profile event.

With the organisers racing against time to work out a schedule, senior BCCI official Rajiv Shukla met Home Ministry officials to take stock of the situation.

In a positive development, three states -- Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh -- have sent their feedback to the Home Ministry on the new fixtures and have given a virtual clearance to the event.