The Game SCAM

The Commonwealth Games 2010 intended to showcase India as capable and competent nation turned into a long lasting shame only because undue financial advantages given and taken by a few in authority and several in private sector by their association with works related to the Games. Scope and magnitude of the scam associated with the Gemes in much larger and with wider ramifications.

It exposed a part failure of the system of governance as persons in authority abdicated their primary responsibilities invested by their offices and allowed to be overwhelmed by extraneous considerations, playing a role in decision making. Political considerations dictating selection of the team leader despite his apparent manipulations allowing him to run the show as self-appointed Fuhrer without constraining his excesses.

Expenditure allowed a riot run into national resources without budgetary ceilings on baseless presumptions of the political priorities. Several agencies including appointed one by the Prime Minister have done excellent investigation of wrong decisions and financial implications. However, the book goes beyond irregularities and illegalities of financial transactions. It analyses political implications of the event that will last as a shame and label India as a nation of corrupt and incompetent rulers.