Give date after Dec 16, PMO tells Kharge

New Delhi, December 8

In a communication to Congress Lok Sabha leader Mallikarjun Kharge, the Department of Personnel and Training today asked him to suggest a date after December 16 for a possible meeting to select the next CBI Director.

Minister of State in the PMO Jitendra Singh, who is also in-charge of the Department of Personnel, wrote to Kharge in response to his letter sent yesterday in which he had raised concerns over the appointment of Gujarat-cadre IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as interim Director of the CBI, alleging that the selection process had been vitiated.

Kharge is a member of the committee which comprises the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of India and the Leader of the Opposition or that of the largest party in Opposition in the LS. — TNS