At a time when the centre is facing the heat from the opposition for setting up a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) to probe the 2G scam, Suresh Kalmadi, the face of the CWG fiasco and Congress MP from Pune wants a JPC to probe the overlays and other CWG scams as well.

In the first case, the government sacrificed much of the previous parliament session to fend off the opposition demand. But the demand for the JPC probe into the CWG scams has come from within the party, making it the more embarrassing.

What Kalmadi hopes to gain from this could either be a fair probe which he hopes would clear his name or suffcient embarassment for the Congress as some of the party's others leaders could also be implicated. Whichever be the denouement, the heat would be off Kalmadi.

Sacked as the games' organising committee chairman, Kalmadi has been widely blamed for the Games budget bloating from an early estimate of Rs 6,000 crore to over Rs 90,000 crore.

On the other hand, he has been maintaining that the OC was allocated only 5 percent of the CWG budget and the rest was used by various agencies, run by Delhi's Congress government and the UPA government at the centre. So, a JPC could discomfit some of the Congress leaders.

The scam, thus, definite needs closer scrutiny which a JPC might bring.

However, the question remains whether Kalmadi should have a say in what agency should probe the CWG scam. Or should the government constitute a JPC given that the scam needs a greater investigation?