‘Mockery of process’: Rahul Gandhi writes to PM to record dissent on CBI director selection exercise
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Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused the government of reducing the process of selecting the next director of the Central Bureau of Investigation to a “mere formality” and wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to record his dissent.
The Congress leader made the comment after a meeting of the three-member committee responsible for selecting the next chief of the probe agency.
The committee, chaired by Modi, also comprises Chief Justice Surya Kant.
The panel met on Tuesday at the prime minister’s official residence in Delhi to decide who should succeed the current director, Praveen Sood. Sood’s term is due to end on May 24, after he received a one-year extension in 2025.
In his dissent note to Modi, Gandhi alleged that despite repeatedly requesting the “self-appraisal or 360-degree assessment reports” of the eligible candidates, he was not provided with them.
“Instead I was expected to examine the appraisal records of sixty-nine candidates for the first time during the committee meeting,” Gandhi said in his letter to the prime minister.
He added that the “deliberate denial of information, without any legal basis, makes a mockery of the selection process and ensures that only your pre-decided candidate is selected”.
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Gandhi also alleged that the government has “repeatedly misused the CBI…to target political...