CWG Scam: Put MMS and Dikshit behinds bars too

Country Needs Action
The Comptroller and Auditor General report on the Commonwealth Games comes as no surprise. Corruption and mismanagement were hallmark of the Games that led to Pune MP and CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi landing in jail. The CAG report clearly establishes multiple failures at various levels of the Government of India and numerous agencies including Delhi Government involved in the execution of the mega sporting event. The systematic and blatant loot of the exchequer was evident much before the press started exposing the rampant corruption in execution of the Games. A budget of Rs 1,200 crore reached approximately Rs 18,532 crore excluding investments on allied infrastructure by agencies like the DMRC, AAI and DAIL. However, only blaming Kalmadi and his team for the mess would be entirely unfair. Kalmadi was just a part of the bigger scheme of things. The fountainhead of the unparalleled scam is non other than Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his team. By reportedly looking the other way, they were egging Kalmadi to go on regardless. Finance, Sport, Urban Development and Information and Broadcasting ministries played an equally important role in perpetuating the CWG scam. And Delhi czarina deserves a special mention. State Chief Minsiter Sheila Dikshit is the unofficial queen of the baton relay of corruption joining the various dots enjoying unbridled joy ride till the CAG stepped in.
All the CWG embezzlement actors should be exposed. The judiciary has been playing an exemplary role and the country expects that the law protectors would continue to serve the country with honesty and absolute integrity. But the aam admi feels that given the complexities involved in seeing the guilty behind bars, it may not be possible in this day and age. Now that the CAG report has indicted the PMO and the Dikshit regime, will the real culprits be ever booked. Ironically, the Government wastes no opportunity to run down the CAG. The classic example is the CAG report on 2 G scam being rubbished Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal. After Raja was ousted from his job in the Sanchar Bhawan, Sibal addressed the nation and trashed the report of the national auditors by claiming zero loss in the scam. Will the Government throw the CAG report on CWG in the bin is yet to be seen but given the track record of the UPA regime probability is high. In any case, Dikshit’s aide Chief Secretary Tripathi has batted for his madam and claimed that the report was ‘totally wrong’. Thankfully, Tripathi is not the last word in the country today. The Congress party is already in no mood to relent and is backing her and Singh. The common man needs to see the CWG mess protagonist behind bars, for long. Very-very long, indeed. The judiciary and the law enforcing agencies need to repose the faith of the people.