The controversy created by Indian Sports Minister Vijay Goel has not yet died down but the Haryana government is getting ready to send its own sports minister, Anil Vij to the Rio Olympics. (Rio Olympics : Full Coverage)

Goel, who is currently in the Brazilian capital with a large delegation, has kicked up a storm. The Rio organisers wrote a letter to India's chef-de-mission, Rakesh Gupta, complaining of the ministerial staff and their rude behaviour with tournament officials.(Rio 2016 organisers call Vijay Goel 'rude', threaten to cancel Sports Minister's accreditation)

Goel came out in the open to defend himself and promised swift action if any of his staff were found to have flouted rules. However, what so many officials were doing there at the Games with him is baffling. Goel even had his wife for company.

The minister's indiscretion has embarrassed the country at a time when it has not even won a single medal. Goel, it was learnt, is likely to come back home by the weekend.

However, Rio will not miss the high-handedness of India's politicians for long.

Now, it emerges that Haryana sports Vij is heading to Rio with eight people, who do not have anything to do with sports. They are leaving for Brazil on August 14th and their sojourn is set to cost the exchequer Rs 1 crore, approximately.

Vij's contingent has also booked tickets for the Games closing ceremony. Each ticket costs Rs 90,000. There are nine people in the group. It all boils down to almost Rs 9 lakhs being blown away to see the grandeur Brazil has to offer.).

Closing ceremony tickets are customised, non-transferable, and have images of the person attending the ceremony. Therefore, they cannot even claim to cancel reservations and tickets if the media raises a stink.

As many as four business class tickets have been booked - one for Vij, two for MLAS and one for KK Khandelwal, Additional Chief secretary, sports.

Five economy tickets have been booked for the others.

In fact, Vij and his team found it so important to travel to Rio that they managed to postpone the assembly session which was earlier scheduled to begin on August 19.

Surprisingly, many athletes from Haryana have complained that their individual coaches were not allowed to accompany them to Rio. They would be bemused to see their sports minister arriving in tow with a huge group.

Vij's entourage includes:

Gyan Chand Gupta, MLA Panchkula

Vijay Pal, MLA Rewadi

Media Advisor to Chief Minister

KK Khandelwal, Additional Chief secretary, sports,

Jagdeep Singh, Director Sports

OP Sharma, JT Secretary, Sports

Anil Vij's PA

KK Khandelwal's PA