<p class="title">Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, terming the appointment of M Nageshwar Rao as the CBI's interim director "illegal" and demanding that a meeting of the selection committee be convened immediately to appoint a new chief of the probe agency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kharge, who is part of the prime minister-headed three-member panel that removed Alok Verma as CBI chief, alleged that the government is scared of CBI led by an "independent" director.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Actions of the government indicate that it's scared of a CBI headed by an independent director," Kharge wrote in his letter to PM Modi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also demanded that the government come clean on the issues and make public the CVC report, Justice A K Patnaik's report and minutes of the January 10 meeting.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rao's appointment as CBI interim chief is "illegal", the Congress leader wrote in the letter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Barely two days after the Supreme Court reinstated him, Verma was Thursday last removed as CBI director by the high-powered committee headed by PM Modi on charges of corruption and dereliction of duty, in an unprecedented action in the central probe agency's 55-year history.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There were eight charges against Verma in the CVC report presented before the committee that also comprised Kharge and Justice A K Sikri, appointed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi as his nominee.</p>
<p class="title">Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, terming the appointment of M Nageshwar Rao as the CBI's interim director "illegal" and demanding that a meeting of the selection committee be convened immediately to appoint a new chief of the probe agency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Kharge, who is part of the prime minister-headed three-member panel that removed Alok Verma as CBI chief, alleged that the government is scared of CBI led by an "independent" director.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Actions of the government indicate that it's scared of a CBI headed by an independent director," Kharge wrote in his letter to PM Modi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He also demanded that the government come clean on the issues and make public the CVC report, Justice A K Patnaik's report and minutes of the January 10 meeting.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rao's appointment as CBI interim chief is "illegal", the Congress leader wrote in the letter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Barely two days after the Supreme Court reinstated him, Verma was Thursday last removed as CBI director by the high-powered committee headed by PM Modi on charges of corruption and dereliction of duty, in an unprecedented action in the central probe agency's 55-year history.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There were eight charges against Verma in the CVC report presented before the committee that also comprised Kharge and Justice A K Sikri, appointed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi as his nominee.</p>