Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken had earlier told Mr Kharge about the party’s reservations over Delhi police commissioner B.S.
Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken had earlier told Mr Kharge about the party’s reservations over Delhi police commissioner B.S. Bassi, faulting him on many counts, including his “failure to control law and order in Delhi”, and also over the role he had played in the JNU row, sources said. He said the party must voice its strong dissent to Mr Bassi’s candidature for the information commissioner post. The party said that Mr Bassi in his tenure as the Delhi police commissioner acted “completely contrary” to purpose of the RTI Act that envisages a confidence-building institution for the people of India. The party also raised questions over the Delhi police’s handling of incidents in the national capital over the past week, where students, faculty and journalists were attacked within and outside court premises and “despite clear evidence of offenders, the police, acting on instructions of their political masters, remained a mute spectator and later chose to file an FIR against unknown persons”.
The police commissioner is due to retire on February 29, 2016, and had been in the running for the CIC post since November 2015.
