Shunglu: Kalmadi set up ‘sham’ Games OC
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the Shunglu panel’s sixth and final report on alleged irregularities in the conduct of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, made public on Friday, was being analysed by various ministries and that he was “yet to get the analyses”.
In its final report, the Shunglu panel slammed Mr Suresh Kalmadi, who was the CWG Organising Committee (OC) chairman, for setting up a “sham” OC with much lesser accountability and transparency. The report states that the panel found “material changes” in official documents by Mr Kalmadi to get the post of OC chief and for sweeping administrative control in the Organising Committee.
“The OC was constituted ‘to retain absolute and unhindered control on the Commonwealth Games 2010 through a sham society with much lesser accountability and transparency even in comparison to the Indian Olympic Association,” the report states, adding, “We have no hesitation in coming to the conclusion that a document relating to appointment of CWG Organising Comm-ittee chairman was created by Kalmadi, or at his behest, in IOA for being specifically used to secure his ends.”
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