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CWG Imbroglio: Kalmadi meets Jaipal Reddy
ahead of GoM meeting
Sunday, October 17, 2010 07:25:11 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi
Sunday met Urban Development Minister S. Jaipal Reddy a day before
the first meeting of the Group of Ministers (GoM) on the Games
after they have concluded.
Reddy, who heads the GoM, said Kalmadi called on him over the
meeting.
"There is a GoM meeting tomorrow (Monday). He met me in that
regard. He also conveyed greetings on Dussehra," Reddy told IANS.
According to official sources, the meeting is expected to look at
the issues of government officers who are working with the
Organising Committee.
They said that with the government instituting a committee to look
at organisation and conduct of the Games in view of complaints
received earlier of irregularities and delays, the GoM meeting is
likely to take a call on the term of officers in the Organising
Committee.
The GoM meeting will discuss about "officers staying back until
things are closed down formally," a source said.
Kalmadi's meeting with Reddy comes after a virtual snub by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Kalmadi,
who is also a Congress MP from Pune, was not called for functions
to felicitate the Indian athletes who had won medals at the Games.
The prime minister had interacted with the medal winners Friday
while Gandhi had called them to her residence Saturday.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit had also said that the needle
of suspicion regarding corruption allegations in Games pointed to
the Organising Committee which had got a loan from the state
government.
Kalmadi had come under fire in the run-up to the Games over
allegations of delays and cost over-runs related to Games
projects. The government had appointed senior officials to oversee
the last phase of the preparations.
The prime minister Friday set up a high-level committee headed by
former comptroller and auditor general V.K. Shunglu to look into
all matters relating to the conduct and organisation of the games.
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