Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday formally recorded his dissent over the selection process for the next director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, accusing the government of withholding crucial information on candidates and reducing the statutory committee process to a “mere formality”.
In a strongly worded letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who chairs the high-powered committee that selects the CBI director, Gandhi said in a post on X that he could not “abdicate” his constitutional responsibility by participating in what he described as a “biased exercise”. The Congress leader also posted the letter publicly on social media, saying the Leader of Opposition “is not a rubber stamp”.
