Ahmedabad may bid for 2026 Commonwealth Games
TNN | Jul 19, 2023, 08.41 AM IST
GANDHINAGAR: Even as the Gujarat government has begun putting up infrastructure for Ahmedabad to bid for hosting the 2036 Olympic Games,the state government has indicated that it could bid for Ahmedabad hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games. This even as Australia’s Victoria on Tuesday pulled out of hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games, citing ballooning costs.
Sources in the Gujarat government informed that it had been preparing for Ahmedabad to make a bid for the 2030 Commonwealth Games, and had set itself a target of completing all infrastructure work by 2028, but it is now actively considering the prospect of bidding to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games, and is hopeful that the Union government be in favour of Ahmedabad bidding to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
‘Projects for Olympic Games bid to be complete by 2026’
Union home minister Amit Shah has been personally supervising progress of work on various projects connected to the Olympics bid, and the top leadership of the BJP has asked the state government to simultaneously begin work on all connected projects, sources said.
Claiming that the Gujarat government will be able to complete all infrastructure works for the Olympic Games bid before 2026, CWG in limbo as Victoria pulls out as 2026 host over spiralling cost – top sources in the state government said on Tuesday. “The projects of Ahmedabad’s bid for the 2036 Olympics will be completed by 2026. Following the development of Victoria pulling out of hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games, Gujarat is
confident that it will get a nod from the Union government to make a bid for the 2026 Games at Ahmedabad,” sources claimed.
The Times of India