CM panel: Shunglu report is ‘paranoid’
Hitting back at the Shunglu Committee report, a three-member panel constituted by the Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday sent a 19-page preliminary response to the PMO stating that the high-powered panel’s observations on irregularities in several CWG projects is a “product of paranoia” and is “full of contradictions” and “anomalies”. The panel alleged that the report was aimed at causing damage to the administration and its political executives.
While making it apparent that the Delhi government did not agree with any of the findings of the committee, the city government rejected almost all the findings of the probe panel in a “point-by point” rebuttal. The Delhi government in its response had further accused the Shunglu Committee of deliberately choosing to adopt a logic of “convenience” in finding corruption in every policy and every tender of the government.
The preliminary response to the Shunglu Committee report which is also posted on the Delhi government’s official website further states: “The report insinuates at a grand machination conspiring to achieve illegal gains in which all and sundry acted in tandem. The details of the report go on to justify this figment of ‘conspiracy theory’ by deliberately choosing to adopt a logic of convenience indicative of palpable corruption in every policy, every design and every tender.”
The response further points out that Mrs Dikshit had on Monday spoken to the Prime Minister about the contradictions in the Shunglu Committee report. The reply also states that “it is disappointing to notice that the report has completely overlooked the fact that thousands of officers and engineers of the city government and its civic bodies had toiled for years to make the highly prestigious event a great success.” The reply also states: “What does one make of a report which begins by stating that ‘even though, city infrastructure was adequate for hosting the Games 2010 even in 2003, the Delhi government embarked on an ambitious programme to upgrade the city infrastructure at a considerable cost’ thereby suggesting that there was a malafide design to undertake city infrastructure projects.”
Mrs Dikshit on Tuesday told media persons, “There is a huge misunderstanding about what the Delhi government did in the Commonwealth Games. The misunderstanding is visible in the findings of the Shunglu Committee.”
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