CAG report on CWG: Govt to respond after PAC takes view

New Delhi, Aug 8 (PTI) With the Opposition demanding the
resignation of Sheila Dikshit after the CAG report on
irregularities in CWG projects, Indian Government on Monday
said it will respond only after the Public Accounts Committee
takes a view on the issue.
Law Minister Salman Khurshid said the opposition "can
target anyone they like" and for the Government "the
Constitutional propriety... the Constitutional requirement is
that if a report comes from the CAG, it has to go to the PAC."
"The importance of the PAC cannot be undermined because
somebody has in their wisdom taken this to be an important
political stick to beat the Government. We respect the PAC
and we would want the PAC to locate it and we can only respond
and react once the PAC has taken a view," he said.
Asked about the "sanctity" attached to the CAG report, the
Minister said, "CAG report is a CAG report and there is no
cause to use words like sanctity or lack of it."
"It is a CAG report. We know the importance of CAG in our
entire system. But we also know the limits which the CAG can
go and that limit obviously examine not by the Government, but
examine by the PAC.
"If the CAG report is acceptable to PAC, (it is) one
thing. If it is not acceptable to the PAC, it is quite another
thing. And what the PAC then points about the report or the
material in the report, we have to wait for the PAC report in
turn," he said.