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3 sports ministers protested but PM backed Kalmadi: BJP
The BJP has alleged that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had supported Commonwealth Games scam prime accused Suresh Kalmadi and sanctioned contracts despite protests from three successive sports ministersSunil Dutt,Mani Shankar Aiyar and M S Gill.
Written by Express News Service
Mumbai | May 1, 2011 12:50 AM IST
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The BJP has alleged that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had supported Commonwealth Games (CWG) scam prime accused Suresh Kalmadi and sanctioned contracts despite protests from three successive sports ministersSunil Dutt,Mani Shankar Aiyar and M S Gill.
BJP general secretary Kirit Somaiya alleged on Saturday that Singh directly and indirectly supported and encouraged CWG scams. This has cost the country Rs 70,000 crore, he said. In the first special meeting called by Dr Manmohan Singh on October 25,2004,the cost of CWG was projected at Rs 1,899 crore. Now,the cost has gone up to Rs 70,000 crore.
He claimed that Singh had supported Kalmadi despite complaints from three Congress ministers who wanted Kalmadi to be removed from the chairmanship of the CWG organising committee.
He said the late Dutt had written to Singh against Kalmadi on November 14,2004; Aiyar on October 25,2007 and his successor Gill on September 26,2009.
Somaiya said the three ministers had objected to the non-transparent activities of Kalmadi during the Games preparations from 2004 to 2010.
He said the government had paid Rs 1.63-crore hotel bills for the staff of a scandalous firm Swiss Timing (Switzerland) in various five-star and four-star hotels in Delhi. Singh had sanctioned scandalous contracts to M/s Sports Marketing and Management (Australia) SMM and M/s Fast Track (UK),he alleged.
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