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khurshid cosy with corporates?
khurshid cosy with corporates?
The Law Ministry is in the limelight. Not surprising in an
era of scams and scandals. After all, its job is to give legal opinion
to all ministries on any and every issue. Naturally, even big business
houses need to engage with the law ministry. Enjoying the limelight is
Law Minister Salman Khurshid. But now Salman has invited trouble for
himself. The President of the Legal Service Officers Association,
Prabhakar Singh, who is a Joint Secretary in the ministry, is filing a
petition in the CAT against the minister. The issue at hand is the
manner in which a highly controversial officer NK Sharma was promoted to
the rank of additional secretary by superseding six others. We all know
the DOPT rules state that promotions can only be through two methods –
either by seniority or going by the ACR. In this case, interviews were
conducted by Salman Khurshid himself and Sharma was handpicked. It is
learnt that Sharma is close to the younger brother of a prominent
business house from Mumbai. It is no secret that the younger brother and
Salman are good friends and the younger brother takes a great deal of
interest in the postings of ministers and officials of the law ministry.
There is also a buzz in the ministry that the senior brother also
called on the minister recently as he wanted his candidate appointed as
law secretary.
Former
Law Minister Veerapa Moily is going around telling the world that he
was ousted from the Law Ministry under pressure from corporate lobbies.
And ironically, Salman Khurshid was removed from the Corporate Affairs
Ministry because he was seen as being too close to corporate lobbies by
the Congress leadership. g
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