Congress distances itself further from Suresh Kalmadi

With party leader Suresh Kalmadi appearing to be heading for bigger trouble, Congress today further distanced itself from him noting that he was not made the Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee chief for being a party MP.
    
"It has nothing to do with the Congress party. Kalmadi was elected as Chairman of the OC beacuse of being the head of Indian Olympic Association and not because he was a member of Congress or Lok Sabha MP from the party," party spokesperson
Shakeel Ahmed told reporters.
    
He said leaders of other political parties like Vijay Kumar Malhotra of BJP and Tarlochan Singh, who was Chairman of the National Commmission for Minorities, were also associated with the Organizing Committee.
    
Asked whether the party feared further embarrassment in the event of arrest of Kalmadi, the spokesperson said CBI was looking into the matter and is "free to take its own course".
   
"Whoever are responsible and if their complicity is involved, action will definitely be taken. CBI has the facts and it knows when to take what action against whom. We should allow CBI to do its job. CBI will act at the right time," was his response when asked about the arrest of Kalmadi's close aide Lalit Bhanot today.