Defending Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit over her indictment in the recently published report of Comptroller and Auditor General of India on irregularities observed in Commonwealth Games, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has said the party has decided not to take any action against her.
Singh said the party core committee has already discussed the matter and no action would be taken against her.
Emphasising that the CAG report is just an opinion and not a finding, Singh said, "The CAG has presented the report, let the Public Accounts Committee go through it in the Parliament. Then CAG gives an opinion, it is not a finding. Therefore I think it is not incriminating evidence against any person."
The CAG has indicted Dikshit and the Prime Minister's Office in their report on the irregularities observed in the CWG.
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party demanded the resignation of Dikshit for her alleged role in the scam.
Reacting on the opposition demand, Singh said Congress' demand for resignation of former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa was based on factual details listed in the report of state ombudsman, thus both reports cannot be compared with each other.
"You cannot compare CAG reports with the Lokayukta report. Lokayukta is a judicious body with investigative powers. The CAG does not have the investigative powers; it only sort of forms an opinion on the basis of records available to them," he said.
"It is an audit report, it is not an investigative report. I would complement Justice Santosh Hedge (former ombudsman) about intensive investigation that this Lokayukta of Karnataka has done in following the trail of the funds and other related things. Therefore, you cannot compare the Lokayukta report of Karnataka on basis of which Yeddyurappa had to resign and a CAG report," he added.
