Lovely claims that every March CAG reports are out and evry time they find some fault in tender process and if one resigns for being named in the CAG report, governments have to change every March. Reiterating his government's position with the to co-operate with Public Accounts Committee, he said if PAC wants to know anything, he will be more happy to do so and maintained that the CAG was an auditor while PAC was a Constitutional body to go into the report.
When the BJP government was asked to read the report propoerly and carefully before demanding resignations, the Minister said that the CAG has infact, acknowledged the infrastructure development and street lighting during the Common Wealth Games.
He said that in page 427 of the Cag report, the CAG has acknowledged the improvement in infrastructure that the Games have bought. He also praised the infrastructural development the Delhi Government has brought.
Following the tabling of the CAG report last week, the BJP government has been demanding the resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit, saying that the auditor has indicted her in the report. Earlier at the Cabinet meeting chaired by Shiela Dikshit, the ministers analysed the situation arising out of the CAG report and decided to give a strong reply to the allegations.
The government has already prepared the preliminary reply to the irregularities mentioned by the CAG report. Dikshit refused to comment about the uproar in Parliament over the opposition demand for her resignation this morning which had lead to its adjournment. She also added that on whatever is happening in Parliament, she will not comment on that. And when asked about the growing demand for her resignation, she claimed that let them demand.
News Reported by AR
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