New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge has declined Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to a lokpal selection committee meeting, saying the “special invitee” status would not allow him to contribute to the discussion over the appointment of the anti-corruption watchdog.
Apart from the Prime Minister, Thursday’s high-powered meeting will be attended by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan.
“My mere presence as a special invitee without rights of participation, recording of opinion and voting would be a mere eyewash,” the Congress leader in the Lok Sabha said in a letter to Modi that was initially dated March 28, 2018 and later corrected to February 28.