New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made Home Minister Rajnath Singh powerless. Report claimed that transfers and postings of senior officers are being directly decided by Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh will only signing the files once the PM has taken a decision.
Senior officers like Special Secretary Internal Security in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Secretary Aids Control in the Health Ministry and the Chairman of Air India have recently been appointed by the Cabinet Committee on Appointments (ACC), which clears the file for the Joint Secretary and above for the government.
Notify that PM Modi had reconstituted the ACC after coming to power. Earlier, ACC included the Home Minister, Prime Minister and the concerned minister in question, but now it only includes the Home Minister and the Prime Minister.
HM Rajnath Singh clarified over the question about his curtailed power in the Rajya Sabha on Monday that some files went without his signature as he was busy with some other work.
Meanwhile Congress leader Manish Tewari had claimed it a gross over-centralization of power and of being symbolic of a growing personality cult.
Tewari said, “It is unprecedented that the Home Minister is cut out of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. Is this indicative of a rupture in the relationship between the two or is it indicative of the Prime Minister wanting to concentrate all powers in his own secretariat?”
Bureau Report
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