Suresh Kalmadi out of Ethics Committee

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 23:03

Tags: Suresh Kalmadi, Parliament, Ethics Committee

New Delhi: Suspended Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi, who is in judicial custody in Tihar in connection with Commonwealth Games scam, has been removed from the Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha.

"It is an established practice that members who have been jailed are dropped from the Committee," Parliamentary sources said.

The Committee, chaired by Congress MP Manikrao Gavit, oversees the moral and ethical conduct of members and examines every complaint of unethical behaviour of members.

In a charge sheet filed in May, the CBI has named Kalmadi, the former chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, as a prime accused and the mastermind in a corruption case related to financial irregularities in awarding a Rs 141 crore contract for timing, scoring and result system for the October 2010 sporting event.

PTI

First Published: Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 23:03

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BRIJ - NEWYORK
HE CAN BE PROMOTED AS ETHICS ADVISER TO CONGRESS PARTY.

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MP Singh - USA
It is shameful that unethical persons are appointed on Ethics Committee. For politicians ethics has different meaning than it has for laymen. If other members on the so-called Ethics Committee are also like Kalmandi, just disband the Committee, it can never achieve its real purpose. It would only servie to hoodwink the public at large.The sanctitiy of the Committee is vitiated.