PM's office not indicted in CAG's report on CWG

Government has made it clear that the CAG report on Commonwealth games has not indicted the Prime Minister's office while members of the group of Ministers on Media addressed reporters on the matter.Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said CAG report only contained statement of facts and no one was indicted.He said Parliament cannot be held to ransom on any one issue and urged opposition to follow procedures.

Sibal further said after following the due procedure action will be taken if anybody has done wrong.Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said no office has been indicted in CAG report and asked media to exercise restraint.
Noting that the government has gone through the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), Delhi Transport Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely said it has neither indicted Dikshit nor any other political head and has rather praised the city government on infrastructure development work."We have gone through the report. Nowhere in the report either the Chief Minister or any minister or any public functionary has been named. Nobody has been indicted. No mention of their names. Where is the indictment of the Chief Minister? "

" What is happening now is unnecessary politicisation of the CAG report. Some people are trying to take political mileage out of the report.... Nowhere in the report, there is mention of the words -- corruption or scam," Lovely told a press conference after a meeting of the Delhi Cabinet which discussed the audit report in detail.

Tearing into opposition demand for Dikshit's resignation, Lovely said if the governments were to resign on the "mere" mention of their names in the CAG report, then every March there will be change in guard at both central and state levels.
The CAG had pointed out several irregularities in certain projects like streetscaping and streetlighting causing financial losses.Lovely said there was "no role" of any political leader or for that matter the Chief Minister in the tender process.

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