The final blow finally came last night, but Blackburn began the long slide towards relegation that fateful November day in 2010 when Venky's bought the club.
They ignored the golden rule of running a club like Blackburn which is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Under the leadership of then-chairman John Williams, Rovers had been the model example of how a relatively small-town club could punch above their weight and succeed in the Premier League.
Venky's failed to understand this and immediately started to make radical changes right throughout the club, which upset this fine balance.
They decided Sam Allardyce didn't fit their vision of the future and sacked him in December 2010 after a defeat to Bolton with the club in no danger of relegation.
They bizarrely promoted first-team coach Steve Kean, Big Sam's No 3, to become his replacement even though the Scot had never managed before.
Behind the scenes, they made sweeping changes and Williams went, to be followed by secretary Tom Finn. Williams was soon deemed good enough to work for Manchester City.
Results worsened and Blackburn only survived on the last day at Wolves.
That should have been the warning sign to Venky's that their plan was not working, but they carried on.
Phil Jones left for Manchester United, making a mockery of Kean's claim weeks earlier that the Venky's backing meant Rovers no longer had to sell their best players.
The grand talk of signing world-class names like Ronaldinho and David Beckham, who would lead the club into the Champions League came to nothing.
Kean saw his budget reduced and just about managed to bring Yakubu and Scott Dann in on transfer deadline day in August.
Leading players like Chris Samba felt let down that Venky's were not delivering on their bold promises and the Rovers skipper tried to leave.
He eventually went in January - along with his predecessor Ryan Nelsen - and Rovers could not cope with losing such experienced professionals.
Michel Salgado was exiled to the wilderness before Christmas because he was close to playing enough games to trigger a contract extension, which Venky's were unwilling to give him.
Likewise, Jason Roberts was binned. Again two more highly-experienced players discarded who could have helped the club's relegation fight.
The fans could see what was happening and mounted a campaign to drive Kean and Venky's out.
But with the Indian family rarely venturing to Britain from the Pune HQ, it was Kean who bore the brunt of their anger as the atmosphere at Ewood Park became poisonous.
Kean only incensed the fans further by being in denial. He trotted out the same hopelessly optimistic comments after each successive defeat.
He refused to accept how grave Blackburn's situation was or accept any responsibility for their plight.
It looked the end had finally come for Kean after a disastrous home defeat to Bolton before Christmas, but the support of Venky's chairwoman Anuradha Desai kept him in a job.
Results improved and after their win over Sunderland in March lifted them six points clear of the drop zone, they looked like they might be safe.
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But instead they dropped like a stone, losing seven of their next eight games before the inevitable happened against Wigan.
The abuse against Kean reached a crescendo last night and the fans chanted throughout the game for him to go.
He has behaved with dignity in the face of this hostility and deserves credit for that.
However he has failed totally as Blackburn's manager and 13 wins from his 58 league games simply isn't good enough.
He should accept the blame and quit.
But he won't.
Source : Mirror.co.uk
