Mukul Rohatgi declines Centre's offer to become attorney general

September 25, 2022 22:05

Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi has declined the central government's proposal to be appointed as the next attorney general for India.

Rohatgi was set to be appointed as the fourteenth attorney general of India replacing the incumbent KK Venugopal.

Asked about his decision to decline the Centre's offer, Rohatgi said that there is no particular reason for declining the offer and he "thought about it again" and decided not to take up the offer.

If Rohatgi had accepted the offer, it would have his second tenure as an AG, after he served the post for the first time between June 2014 and June 2017.

Earlier, the veteran lawyer and present Attorney General KK Venugopal expressed unwillingness to continue in the top law officer's post beyond September 30 citing health problems. -- ANI

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