Congress core group meets, defends Dikshit on CAG report
Saturday August 06, 2011 06:51:00 PM,
IANS
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Delhi:
The Congress Saturday came out in defence of Delhi Chief Minister
Sheila Dikshit, whose government has been indicted by the
Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) for irregularities in the
Commonwealth Games.
The decision came after a meeting here of the Congress core group,
attended by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other top leaders.
Janardan Dwivedi, a member of the four-member high-level team
which is to oversee party affairs during the absence of Congress
president Sonia Gandhi, said the case of Dikshit and former
Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who resigned recently
following his indictment in a mining scam by the Lokayukta, cannot
be compared.
"The report (CAG) says that in some heads money was overspent and
it could have been saved. It is not as big that it can be compared
to Yeddyurappa or someone else," Dwivedi said after the core group
meeting.
The party will not readily succumb to the demand of the BJP, a
party leader who did not wish to be identified, told IANS.
The party will put its weight behind the chief minister inside and
outside the parliament, "at least at the initial stage", he added.
The party is also awaiting the return of Rahul Gandhi, general
secretary, who is abroad attending to party chief Sonia Gandhi who
is recuperating after a surgery.
Besides Manmohan Singh, the meeting was attended by Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister A.K. Antony, Gandhi's
political secretary Ahmed Patel, party general secretary Janardan
Dwivedi and other leaders.
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