new delhi india will not bid for the 2022 commonwealth games since its too late to make a proposal when so many nations are already in the contention indian olympic association ioa president n ramachandran clarified on tuesdaythere are too many people in the fray durban has not yet officially pulled out even though they are saying but commonwealth games committee is still in discussion with south africa ramachandran who on tuesday called on the sports minister vijay goel told reportersuk has come forth saying that they want to do it in london manchester and birmingham so for the ioa to make a proposal at this late stage is not advisablea day after durban gave up hosting rights because the south african government failed to give financial guarantees there were reports that ioa is weighing the option of stepping in as a replacementasked if there are any other events which ioa and sports ministry are looking to bid for ramachandran said yes but at this point of time it is too premature to talk about it we are not only looking to bid for only ioc sessions but also multisports eventslook at china this is exactly what china did 1520 years ago so we can adopt the same path unless there is any multisport event happening in india our athletes will not get exposure and the push to do well will also not be there so we are always looking for all possible multisport eventfor example on a very short notice we hosted the saf games within 90 days and it was a tremendous success so we are always looking for hosting some multisport event he explainedasked about the upcoming rural games sports minister vijay goel said it has been postponed we had planned it two months ago but delhi government linked it to politics and declined to provide the stadiums we had two options either to bring it here or postpone it so we decided to prepare for it properly after the elections are overdelhi gramin khel mahotsav 2017 was supposed to be held in delhi in association with delhi government from march 25 to 31