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Aiyar-Kalmadi spat ‘free-style wrestling’,tweets Cong leader

With former Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar and IOA President Suresh Kalmadi at loggerheads over the Commonwealth Games,Congress leader Anil Shastri has deplored the 'free-style wrestling' between the two.

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With former Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar and IOA President Suresh Kalmadi at loggerheads over the Commonwealth Games,Congress leader Anil Shastri has deplored the “free-style wrestling” between the two.

On the microblogging site ‘twitter’,Shastri,a special invitee of the Congress Working Committee and editor of party mouthpiece ‘Congress Sandesh’ said,“It has become a free-for- all-affair at CG (Commonwealth Games). Free style wrestling is being witnessed at the preparations level itself. This is deplorable”.

Later,he said an intervention was needed in the matter as India’s image as a sporting nation was at stake.

Shastri had earlier tweeted and dubbed the hike in prices of kerosene and cooking gas as “disastrous for the common man”.

He had also trained his guns on Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia for his remarks that inflation will ease by December-end.

“Deputy Chairman Planning Commission has said inflation will ease into a comfortable zone by December,which he said verbatim last November also,” Shastri remarked in his last post on his twitter account.

The posts by Shastri comes months after former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor got into trouble for tweeting on diverse issues,including the government’s foreign policy.

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Congress today disapproved of the sparring between Aiyar and Kalmadi,saying senior leaders of the party should speak responsibly when they reply to any issue in public.

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