PM pulls up ministers for CWG mess

NEW DELHI, SEPT 24
With the countdown beginning for the Commonwealth Games and in the face of international criticism after pictures of the dismal state of the Commonwealth Games Village were splashed world over, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday stepped in to clean up the Games mess.
Cracking the whip on cabinet colleagues, including Sports minister M S Gill and Urban Development Ministry Jaipal Reddy, the Prime Minister directed them to stop passing the buck on Friday during a Cabinet meeting in New Delhi for the delay in the preparation for Commonwealth Games. During the meeting Singh told the ministers that the time to blame each other was over. He reportedly told them that it was now one country, one games, one government and that time was now running out.
Singh also sent a strong message to Gill, who famously made light of the delays in the Games preparations in the past, by drawing parallels with an Indian monsoon wedding, asking him to behave like a Sports Minister of the country. Singh then criticised Reddy for sloppy work at the stadia, Games Village, cleanliness and the fall of bridge near the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
The image of the bridge collapsing on Tuesday had sparked off fears among the visiting international teams of the lack of safety. Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy was told by the PM to get his act together.
The Prime Minister sources say has been very upset with the utter lack of coordination among the ministries and agencies. He told his cabinet colleagues on Friday that “the time to blame the other is now over. It is now one country, one games, one Government and time is running out”.
He added that Suresh Kalmadi was not the only person to be blamed for the state of affairs and warned that action would be taken against those found not doing enough.