Commonwealth Games: When Will Kalmadi and Co. Be Punished?

With India finishing second for the first time ever in Commonwealth Games (CWG), as an Indian am I supposed to be proud of my country’s performance or should I be ashamed for the common wealth that was accumulated for organizing the games?

To be honest I am very proud of the athletes of my country as they are the reason why India is on the second spot for first time in the history of the game.

As a citizen of this country and a tax payer, I am truly embarrassed as all the organizing committee of CWG did was to churn more and more money out from the entire event. Finishing the work 2 days prior to the event, broken bridges, substandard quality of work, ignoring the worker who is still lying in the hospital after the bridge collapsed on him. The list can go on and on and on. To top it every Indian who had blamed the government that we didn’t need the Games fell flat as soon as the opening ceremony finished. All I could hear from people was what an opening ceremony it was. Ours was better than the FIFA World Cup ceremony and ours was better than the previous CWG and on and on. There is no doubt that the opening ceremony was absolutely brilliant but was the ceremony so well that tax payers money which was pocketed by the organizing committee be forgotten?

Will there be justice to every tax payer’s money? Will the culprits be given the punishment or as it generally happens we will just have a committee that will look into the matter?

I as the citizen of India would love to see the culprits appropriately punished and the punishment should be such that no other person in the country would want to repeat the same mistake.

Time to face the embarrassment yet again & salute the athletes of India!

Published in a website isport.in on Thursday 14th October 2010

http://www.tapri.in/specials/commonwealth-games/1846-commonwealth-games-when-will-kalmadi-and-co-be-punished

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