Meeting to discuss the name of probable and to reach to consensus on one of the aspirants, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, leader of Opposition in the Assembly, Swami Prasad Maurya and Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court,DY Chandrachud would hold a meeting here on Sunday morning.
The meeting has been convened after the Chief Justice suggested that he will be available for discussion on any day on which the High Court remained closed. Sources hinted six former judges were in the race for the State Ombudsman post out of which name of Chairman of Consumer Forum, Virendra Singh Yadav topped the chart. During the last meeting, in which the CJ was not present, the Chief Minister and the loP had an hour long dialogue and have 'almost reached a consensus' among 40 aspirants. The other prominent names discussed were that of Sanjay Mishra, Imtiyaz Murtaza, AN Verma, and DP Singh.
Sources further said that the panel of over three dozen retired judges whose name would come up for discussion also included included UK Dhawan, Zakiullah Khan, PC Verma, Rakesh Sharma, IM Quddusi, Jagdish Bhalla, Bhanwar Singh, MU Khan, SS Yadav, Abdul Mateen, DP Singh of lucknow, Vishnu Sahai (Now free after submitting his report on Muzaffarnagar riots) etc.