Rahul Gandhi Attends Key PMO Meeting to Select Next CBI Chief

GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 5th May: Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, arrived at the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday to participate in a crucial meeting for the selection of the next Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), sources confirmed.

The high-powered selection committee for appointing the CBI chief includes the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of India, and the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. The CBI Director is appointed for a fixed tenure of two years, which can be extended up to five years.

The current CBI Director, Praveen Sood, is set to retire on May 25. Sood, a 1986-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the Karnataka cadre, took charge of the central investigative agency in May 2023, succeeding Subodh Kumar Jaiswal.

The meeting is expected to finalise the next head of India’s premier investigative body at a time when the agency continues to face intense political scrutiny over allegations of selective action and politicisation.