“Let us have a high-level apex committee to which all the agencies, including the Organising Committee, will be responsible. We may still get a clean Game and a successful one,” Aiyar told reporters outside Parliament.
Asked whether OC Chief Suresh Kalmadi should resign, he said, “I have given a constructive suggestion and I have not said Kalmadi should be removed from the OC.”
He said the Australia government had also set a high-level committee during the Sydney Olympics.
“What was done at Sydney Olympics was done exactly by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi during the Asiad 1982 when a Special Organising Committee was set up with Buta Singh as chairman and the Cabinet passed a resolution through which all ministers concerned were empowered to give sanctions,” Aiyar said.
Referring to Rajiv Gandhi, he said: “Then a back bencher called Rajiv Gandhi who happened to be the son of the prime minister was inducted into that Special Organising Committee. He brought along with him a number of young and dynamic people.
“Between them they organised the Games where there was no scandal and it was a total success,” he said.