Finding the internal rift in country’s premier investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), as an yet another opportunity to target the Prime-Minister Narendra Modi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal retweeted Modi’s 2013 post in which he had slammed the then UPA Government for allegedly undermining the intelligence system of the country.
Kejriwal through series of tweets questioned the Modi Government’s authority to send the CBI director on leave and wondered if the move was related with the Rafale deal. The Government on Wednesday had sent CBI Director Alok Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana on leave as the two warring officers were involved in a feud.
“Unfortunate that in its quest to target political opponents, Centre is undermining intelligence systems with CBI questioning IB officials,” Modi had tweeted when the Congress-led UPA was in power.
The Prime Minister-led Appointments Committee on Tuesday night gave charge of the director to Joint Director M Nageshwara Rao with immediate effect, a Government order said. “What are the reasons for sending CBI director on leave? Under which law did the Modi govt get the authority to initiate action against the chief of an investigating agency appointed as per the Lokpal Act? What is Modi govt trying to hide?” he said in one of his tweets.