New Delhi, November 25 2009: After the Commonwealth Games Committee, Members of the Parliament on Wednesday slammed Sports Minister MS Gill over delays in the preparation of the Games project.

Rajya Sabha MPs raised concerns during the question hour over the preparations of the 2010 Games to be held in New Delhi.

Cutting across party lines, MPs came down heavily on the slow execution of projects for the 2010 edition of the games.

Some of the prominent MPs, including BJP's Arun Jaitley, Samajwadi Party's Jaya Bachchan and JDU's NK Singh, slammed Union Sports Minister MS Gill over the lack of preparations for the showpiece event.

An irked Jaya Bachchan slammed Gill saying, "We are a great nation at laughing at ourselves.

This is such a big joke.

The Games is going to be the most humiliating experience of this nation" .

JDU's NK Singh questioned the Games Committee's commitment towards the building up of adequate infrastructure for the sporting event.

He said, "There are too many cooks in the kitchen.

All that the statements issued say that the work is on track and will be completed on time, but there is no physical and financial progress of the same" .

Meanwhile, BJP leader Arun Jaitley too took a dig at the Sports Minister saying, "We are in a state of last minute panic.

There is a legitimate concern on whether the infrastructure necessary for the Games will be completed on time.

We got the project in 2003 and the international committee visited India in 2005 .

I don't understand why the stadium construction should have started as late as 2008 .

There has been an ugly conflict between the international committee and ours.

We don't come up and say that this organisation of the Games is actually a fight against imperialism" .

Earlier during the proceeding of the House, allaying fears of delay in preparation for the Commonwealth Games 2010, Gill assured Rajya Sabha that all state-of-the-art stadia and infrastructure will be completed in time and security steps taken to ensure that the mega event is incident-free.

"The stadia will be completed in time.

The Government is investing substantial amounts for upgradation of various stadia to be used for the games.

These stadia will become state-of-the-art venues of international standard," Gill said.

In a statement on the Calling Attention on the preparation for Commonwealth Games, he said that the financial sanctions for all the stadia, estimated to cost around Rs 4,100 crore, have been accorded and "work is progress at a rapid pace".

He said work on three stadia - Dr SPM Swimming Complex, Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range and the Cycling Velodrome - had a delayed start due to some design issues.

The Group of Ministers, constituted for the Games, review the progress every week, Gill said.

The Minister said the Games Village was being developed near Akshardham Temple by the Delhi Development Authority on Public-Private-Partnership model and the work is being closely monitored by the Ministry of Urban Development.

"The work is well on schedule and will be completed in time", he said.

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