04-18-2007, 06:20 AM
<b>'Aiyar jab cost Delhi the Asiad' </b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But the IOA is upset with Sports Minister Mani Shanker Aiyer for his comments which they feel may have had an adverse effect on the bidding process. Aiyer had said last week that the Games were of no good to the common man.
"There were too many stories going around that 'India is a divided house', 'the Sports Minister does not want something', they are all in the Gulf News and the Kuwait News. So we couldn't fight that," IOA President Suresh Kalmadi said.
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If you appoint fools as Minister what else one can expect, his previous job history is enough to prove eg. Oil deal, Pakistan, Pakistan, Pakistan......
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But the IOA is upset with Sports Minister Mani Shanker Aiyer for his comments which they feel may have had an adverse effect on the bidding process. Aiyer had said last week that the Games were of no good to the common man.
"There were too many stories going around that 'India is a divided house', 'the Sports Minister does not want something', they are all in the Gulf News and the Kuwait News. So we couldn't fight that," IOA President Suresh Kalmadi said.
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If you appoint fools as Minister what else one can expect, his previous job history is enough to prove eg. Oil deal, Pakistan, Pakistan, Pakistan......