Can't keep on hold appointment of CBI director: PM

November 23, 2012 22:43

In a letter to Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rejected the BJP's demand to keep in abeyance the appointment of the new Central Bureau of Investigation Director Ranjit Sinha.

The prime minister in his letter said, "The insinuation that the appointment was made to preempt the procedure recommended by the Select Committee is wholly unwarranted and devoid of any merit. I also refute the suggestion that the appointments to this post in the past by the UPA Government were motivated by collateral considerations.'

"The question of keeping the new appointment in abeyance does not arise," said Dr Singh.

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