COMMONWEALTH GAMES OR NATIONAL SHAME ?

COMMONWEALTH GAMES OR NATIONAL SHAME?
A few weeks from now India will be hosting at Delhi the Commonwealth Games 2010. The event is already marred with the allegations of financial irregularities involving the high and mighty of the Organizing Committee.
The scam seems to be too huge. Names of some foreigners, connected with Commonwealth Games Federation have sprung up giving it an international dimension. Millions of dollars seem to have changed hands and many more people may be unduly benefited from the loot
I t is a delicate issue. On the one hand we have this enormous job in hand to organize the games successfully and for that removing the people at the helm of the affairs at this stage may prove fatal as any replacement at such a short notice may not be possible or may not deliver the goods. National prestige will get a beating. Already there are reports of games tickets not finding buyers and Hotel and Guesthouses getting little response. Thousands of crores of Rupees have already been spent for the event.
There seems to be a valid reason for a thorough enquiry into the whole issue and exemplary punishment to the people found guilty. The question is should the enquiry be held now or it can be postponed till the games are over. There have been some efforts by the authorities blaming the media for making hue and cry and thus lowering the prestige of the Country in the eyes of world community. Some have even gone to the extent of calling them unpatriotic
On the other hand, punishing the culprits is much bigger issue than the games. Games will come and go but if the culprits go scot free, in future too organizers will be tempted to do bigger loot. . Giving time to these culprits will only help them to falsify records further and find some scapegoats. It seems the Govt. too is soft peddling the issue and trying to shield the Chairman of the Organizing Committee.