New Delhi, August 03: The Delhi government Wednesday came out in defence of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit saying she was not involved in any irregularities related to the Commonwealth Games.
Delhi chief secretary P.K. Tripathi said media reports quoting a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report indicting Dikshit of involvement in irregularities in contracts related to CWG are based on incorrect facts.
‘The reportage of the CAG report does not give the facts accurately and we would like to correct it so that the image of the government is not maligned,’ Tripathi told reporters here.
‘The media reports said that for street lighting four parties were selected of which one was selected later on directions of the chief minister. We want to make it clear that at no stage did the chief minister give any such directions,’ he said.
‘It was decided by the board of assessors who made recommendations. At first Spaceage (company give the contract) was not selected and later they made a representation. The CM has simply marked it to the engineer-in-chief and did not even make any recommendation,’ he added.
Dikshit, meanwhile, declined to comment on the leaked contents of the CAG report saying ‘let the report be tabled in parliament and then I will talk about it’.
The CAG report leaked Tuesday faulted the Prime Minister’s Office for letting Suresh Kalmadi run the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee.
The report, yet to be tabled in parliament, said that the Delhi government and civic agencies overspent Rs.100 crore on streetscaping and Rs.31 crore on street lightning.
—-IANS—-