Delhi CM must clarify her role

The severe indictment of Delhi Government and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's role in the CWG by

the Comptroller and Auditor General of India for her ill-conceived and ill-planned projects can

not be treated lightly. The CAG report points to avoidable use of very expensive material in

street-spacing and street lighting as a cause for the losses.Contracts were given at exorbitant

average costs of Rs. 4.8 crore/km and were “awarded and executed in an ad hoc and arbitrary

manner,” leading to “waste of public funds totalling Rs.101.02 crore.” It clearly reflects her

culpability.

Though the Delhi CM refused to comment on the leaked CAG report untill it is tabled in Parliament

and comes in the public domain, the mounting pressure on her is natural.CAG has also reportedly

changed her with irregularities.The report is expected to be tabled in the ongoing Parliament

session.

Delhi CM's only explanation was that whatever she did was for national interest and prestige. If

she is so concerned with the prestige and interest of the nation, why has she not made any

arrangement for sheltering the poor patients who come Delhi for expert treatment in hospitals. If

the photographs of two patients who have come to treat the deadly diseases in the nations most

prestigious hospital All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, the photographs

clearly depicts how were living in sub-human condition in roadside urinals near the it. The

credit goes to the national daily that carried the photos of the patients which speak about the

prestige of the nation and how the poor are treated by the people in power.

The Delhi Government has allegedly gulped the hundreds of crores of public exchequer in the name

of hosting CWG, and that can not be connived under the excuse of national interest and prestige.

Undoubtedly,Commonwealth Games, Delhi 2010 (CWG) were turned into a resource centre of public

money. The opposition BJP has quickly demanded the resignation of the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila

Dikshit in the wake of CAG indictment. Before the CAG, PM-appointed Shunglu Committee also points

to wheeling-dealing by Delhi CM in CWG.

Mr. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, you must hear the voice on the streets about the

burgeoning corruption is accumulating during your dispensation and the prey to these mouting

corruption is none other than the common people.

CWG Organising Committee (OC) Chairman and Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi and other officials are

already cooling their heels in Tihar Jail for their alleged involvement in swindling of hundred

of crores of rupees of public exchequer.