Rahul Gandhi attended a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah this evening to pick a successor to Rajiv Kumar who retires tomorrow. The Congress has objected to the selection of a Chief Election Commissioner when the law for appointment to post has been challenged in the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court on February 12 shifted the hearing on petitions challenging the legality of a new law which gives a dominant role to the Central government in the appointment process to February 19. \”We can’t operate in ego and the meeting has to be postponed,\” Congress sources quoted by NDTV said. \”The legal team of the Congress has also endorsed the decision,\” the Congress said in a dissent note submitted to the Prime Minister and the Home Minister. The case was time-sensitive due to the impending retirement of incumbent CEC Rajiv. Kumar, said Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for one of the petitioners, the NGO Association for Democratic Reforms. He indicated to a Bench of Justices Surya Kant and N.K. Singh that the case wastime-sensitive. \”When the Supreme. Court has indicated that it would be hearing the matter on the 22nd, we wanted the meeting to be postponed,\” said the Congress.
Rahul Gandhi attended a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra….
