New Delhi, 24/4: Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi wanted a Prime Minister-headed Selection Committee to choose either former IAS officer Sumita Dawra or former Odisha High Court Chief Justice S Muralidhar or academician Faizan Mustafa as the Chief Information Commissionerin December 2025 but his suggestion was rejected, official documents show.
Instead, three-member committee went with Home Minister Amit Shah’s recommendation to choose former Law Secretary Raj Kumar Goyal as the head of the Central Information Commission where the top post was lying vacant for months
