In an apparent jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the appointment of Rishi Kumar Shukla as the New director of the Central bureau of Investigation, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday compared it with choice of Anil Ambani’s Reliance Defence as the offset partner in the Rafale deal.
”Merit according to Modi,” Rahul said in a tweet in which he posted a news report which said that the Rafale deal is a lifeline to Reliance group which is now promised a massive infusion of funds through defence holdings.
It is seen as a reference to the appointment of Shukla as the New CBI director by the Appointments committee of the cabinet, from the panel of names recommended by the three member selection committee, comprising the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and Chief Justice of India justice Ranjan Gogoi.
The tweet by Rahul came after Congress leader and leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge recorded his dissent on the appointment of Shukla as the CBI director, contending that an officer without any experience in the field of anti-corruption should not be appointed for the post.
In his dissent note to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr Kharge said that Mr Shukla, who had been appointed for the post had no experience of investigation in anti-corruption cases, as laid down by the Supreme Court observation in the Vineet Narain judgement.
In his dissent note, Mr Kharge alleged that the PM-led committee diluted the required criteria for the selection of the CBI director, thus violating the spirit of the Delhi special police establishment act and the Supreme court guidelines.(UNI)
