CWG row: Fresh allegations hit Kalmadi
New Delhi: There seems to be no end to the controversies surrounding the Commonwealth Games. Now Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Director General VK Verma seems to be pointing finger at Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi.
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Verma said Kalmadi knew every deal in the Queen's Baton Relay. On this issue Verma speaks to CNN-IBN in an exclusive interview.Earlier reports showed how the two key aides of Suresh Kalmadi, TS Darbari and Sanjay Mohindroo were allegedly involved in the controversy regarding the Queen’s baton relay. However, now it turns out that Kalmadi was involved throughout in the controversy and is much to be blamed. When asked if all the decisions of the organising committee had been taken with the consent of Kalmadi, Verma said since Kalmadi is the chairman he is the only sanctioning authority. Hence it was possible only for him to sanction the expenditure as the executive management committee.
Verma had not been to London as part of the team that took decisions on the spot nor had he been to London for one year until the Queen’s baton relay. So it was never possible for him to get in touch with anyone out there.
On the A M Films controversy, Verma said when he was in Delhi, “people from the field propose this AM cars company have been empanelled by the High Commission and then they are saying this expenditure is to be incurred and what I have said and mark my words very carefully I have said that a three-member negotiating committee I have proposed, under Jai Chandran who is the head of the finance, who was supposed to be in London at the Queen’s Baton relay.
When asked about the personal fax sent to Kalmadi by Mahendroo that said 127,000 pounds must be released to AM Films, Verma said, the note would not have come to him but instead gone to the cheque signings authority. He said he was not in London and hence all was left to the chairman to decide.
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