Prime Minister Narendra Modi has nominated Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to the panel that will select the Chief Information Commissioner and three other information commissioners, reports said.
The Chief Vigilance Commissioner and a Vigilance Commissioner will be appointed by a panel that includes PM Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge.
After the Lok Sabha elections, which witnessed the Congress reduced to just 44 seats, the lack of a Leader of Opposition stood as a hurdle in the appointment of members to statutory bodies that require a bipartisan selection panel. The government then decided to allow the Congress to join the selection panels as the single largest opposition party.
Earlier this month, Sonia Gandhi made a rare intervention in Parliament pointing at the Modi government's "deplorable lapse" in keeping posts vital to transparency and good governance vacant while showing "extraordinary urgency" in introducing bills.
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