New Delhi: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh claimed on Friday that Central government had never told the Governor of Uttarakhand Aziz Qureshi to quit. Notify that Aziz Qureshi had moved to Supreme Court over the move of government to ease him out. The apex court had issued notice to Centre on Thursday.
Singh on Friday said, “There is no move to remove him.”
Over the notice from apex court, Singh said that government will reply very soon be filed.
Singh said, “There was no move to remove him. He holds the Constitutional post with the pleasure of the President.”
The Union Home Minister maintained that no pressure was exerted for Qureshi’s removal and said that a response will be filed before the apex court soon. The Government will be filing an “appropriate reply to the Supreme Court” in response to Qureshi’s decision to approach the apex court, he said.
Sources said that any conversation between Union home secretary Anil Goswami and Qureshi cannot be interpreted in any way that he was being pressurised to quit. The MHA is also confident of its move, as in all other cases where UPA appointees in gubernatorial posts had quit their charge in last three months, it has “resignation letters” of the governors.
The officials said, “The UPA appointed governors who quit their charge in the last three months had resigned themselves. In two cases, the President dismissed them on various grounds which have been documented.”
Bureau Report
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