PM calls meeting to discuss CWG preparations

New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI) Against the backdrop of a
spate of controversies surrounding the Commonwealth Games,
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will hold a meeting with
the ministers concerned Saturday evening to review
preparations for the mega event to be held in October.
The meeting will be attended by Sports Ministers M S
Gill, Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy, Delhi Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit and others involved, official sources
said.
The meeting assumes significance in view of questions
being raised over the state of preparedness for the sports
event and allegations of corruption surrounding it.
Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi is in the
eye of a storm because of the allegations.
The Prime Minister's action came a day after the
Congress top brass, including party chief Sonia Gandhi,
deliberated on the matter at the meeting of the party's Core
Group.
During the discussions in Parliament on the Games this
week, there were suggestions that the Government appoint a
high-level committee on the lines of the one formed during the
1982 Asian Games which was headed by late Rajiv Gandhi with
the then Sports Minister Buta Singh working under him along
other officials.
However, the Sports Minister had turned down the
proposal.
The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), main opposition party
in India, Friday demanded that the Prime Minister speak on the
issue failing which it would press for suspension of Question
Hour in both Houses of Parliament on Monday. PTI