New Delhi: Congress veteran Mallikarjun Kharge has rejected the Modi government’s invitation to become a ‘special invitee’ to the Lokpal Selection Committee.
The Supreme Court has given 10 days’ time to the selection committee for choosing the Lokpal. The deadline given by the Supreme Court has already come to an end.
According to reports, the selection committee will be meeting on March 15. Mallikarjun Kharge was called as a special invitee to this meeting. Kharge, in a written reply, has rejected the invitation as the special invitee will not have any right or say in the selection of the Lokpal. “The opposition cannot be silent in serious matters like the selection of the Lokpal. So I cannot accept the invitation,” said Kharge.
Kharge has been complaining that the ruling party had not given him a seat in the Lokpal Selection Committee as the leader of the opposition or as the largest opposition party. Kharge accused the central government of not convening the Lokpal Selection Committee meeting for the last five years.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress did not get the official opposition leader in the House because of just 44 constituencies.
