Continuing his tirade against the just-concluded Commonwealth Games (CWG), the former Sports Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, on Sunday said the country should have focussed on improving the plight of its poor instead of spending thousands of crores on the event which “denigrated” its image.
“If your stadium is empty, why not invite the children of those labourers who built the stadium to come in and sit down,” Mr. Aiyar, the most vocal critic of the CWG, told PTI here.
“But no, this was a middle-class party.”
Mr. Aiyar also claimed that no single event had done more damage to India's image since independence than the Games.
