Majority of Indians ignored the virus once the initial lockdowns ended last year and hosted marriages, religious festivals etc and screwed themselves by helping the virus mutate and cause a deadly second wave of infections.
This is true, many were ignoring the warnings and the government is a big culprit as well as they need to make sure everyone understand the seriousness of the situation rather than giving out signs that the virus can be avoided by pseudo science like eating cow dung and cow urine.
The worst part is that some people who followed all precaution protocols properly got affected badly because of these imbeciles. Fault lies on both the government and the people who failed to follow the precaution protocols effectively.
Government had no idea about the second wave and they did not take any precautions and if you have a government who does not have any idea about the situation how will the people take anything seriously and majority are illiterate.
The government will react very negatively of the BCCI try to avoid taxes on a regular basis. And it was partly due to the pressure from the government that they actually decided to stage the IPL 2021 in India.
The board will not fight against the government and will follow whatever they say. The only reason i think the IPL was not shifted when the second wave started is because the government wanted to conduct the IPL in India itself.