M S Gill objects to Premji's comments

Gill attacks Premji's comment on CWG
By SINS
Monday, 30 August 2010, 08:32 IST

The leaders of Indian industries should come forward and rise for the support sportsmen, said the Minister of Sports M S Gill, reacting to Azim Premji's statement that investment on events like the Commonwealth Games (CWG) is a waste of money.

In a recent article, Premji had said the thousand of money being spent on Games, could have been used for developing the infrastructure of schools and the poor parts of the country like Bihar. The country needs to know what the private sector has done about sportsmen who have lead the country with distinction, said Gill.

Gill also mentioned about companies like Tata Steel, who were presented 'Rashtriya Khel Protsahana Puruskar' for their contribution in development of sport in the country. Gill said that the government has decided to give awards to those companies which invest in promotion of sports.

Meanwhile, Gill refused to comment on the stadiums of Common Wealth Games. "Prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh had visited some of the stadiums and his office has issued a statement I have nothing more to add," he said.

M S Gill's shrill attack on Premji would have looked good if he had done a good job on the CWG preparations. Being a Minister of Sports he cannot wash his hands and blame everything on Kalamadi.
As far as asking what the industrialists have done for sports, he can be assured that they have done more for sports than all the politicians combined. They and their companies are paying their taxes which is to be spent on sports also besides paying just the salarie of the goverment servants (ha! ha!) and fatcat politicians who think nothing of increasing their salaries by more than five times when 60 % of our population do not get even 2 square meals.
What work do the MP's do?
The Lok Sabha TV gives a ball by ball account of what they do.
Instead of paying them salaries, they should be made to pay penalty for wasting the tax payer's money.
It would have been better if Gill kept his mouth shut instead of criticising a industrialist who has done so much for the country.
I wish Gill had done even one tenth of Premji has done.