Manmohan will take appropriate action

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will take “appropriate action” on the alleged financial irregularities in the Commonwealth Games projects, Minister of State for Minority Affairs Salman Khursheed has said.

“Our first priority is the smooth conduct of the Commonwealth Games. Let the Games be finished, we are hopeful that the Prime Minister will take an appropriate action [on the alleged financial irregularities],” Mr. Khursheed told journalists here on the sidelines of the convocation of the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA).

On Kashmir, Mr. Khursheed said Dr. Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram were constantly monitoring the situation and were working hard to bring normality there. “There is an elected government in Jammu and Kashmir. We must strengthen the hands of the government in the State where a young and dynamic Chief Minister is handling the situation,” he said.