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New Delhi: New Delhi: The government was ready for “any kind of inquiry” into preparations for the Commonwealth Games (CWG), Sports Minister MS Gill said in the Lok Sabha Tuesday as a furious BJP walked out of the house claiming he had dishonoured parliament with his comments on the right to information (RTI).

“We are ready to consider any kind of inquiry after October 15. Our government will continue to be there after October 15. Let the focus at present be on the sportspersons when the games are not far off,” Sports Minister M S Gill told the House replying to a debate on the games.

“Nothing will be hidden or covered up,” he said in his hour-long reply which was repeatedly interrupted by Opposition members, who continued to pose queries on allegations of corruption and diversion of funds.

Dissatisfied with the reply of the Sports Minister, Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj led a noisy walk out of members of BJP and its allies, who chanted “we want JPC” while leaving the House.

Swaraj took offence to Gill’s remarks asking members to take recourse to the RTI route to obtain details of the expenditure for CWG projects.

Swaraj said Gill’s reference to the RTI queries was a “disrespect” to the House and wondered if RTI was more important than Parliament.

Gill had said the members could get all information regarding expenses on creating infrastructure for the CWG using the provisions of the RTI Act.

Stressing the point further, Gill said that the government is also of the view that ‘full public scrutiny ensures public confidence’.

The minister also said he had asked for a probe after a complaint from the Indian High Commission in London on alleged financial improprieties during last year’s Queen’s Baton Relay.

“I had asked my ministry to immediately ask the Enforcement Directorate to probe the matter,” he said, responding to criticism on the delays in preparations for mega sporting event.

“You know that several officials have been suspended. Why do you think it has happened? It is due to pressure from my ministry.”

Gill, who interspersed his speech with colloquial Punjabi, said he was ready to take MPs to visit the completed stadiums. “You will see how lavishly they have been constructed and their grandeur,” he said, in an apparent justification for the cost overruns for the stadiums.

Referring to the defects in construction of stadia raised

by members during the debate, Gill said work was in progress to rectify all of them and “all will be fine within a month.”

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