A room in the Prime Minister’s Office and an 88-minute meeting between PM Modi, Amit Shah and Rahul Gandhi… This meeting with the Congress leader on Wednesday has become the center of discussion amid the ongoing discussions in Parliament on Vande Mataram and electoral reforms. People are speculating what happened in this meeting between PM Modi, Amit Shah and Rahul Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi reached the Prime Minister’s Office on Wednesday afternoon to attend the meeting. According to reports, the meeting started at 1:07 pm on Wednesday and ended around 2:30 pm. This meeting lasted for about 88 minutes. Now the discussion is going on as to what happened in this meeting.
8 posts vacant in Information Commission
According to available information, this meeting was held to select the new Chief Information Commissioner of the country. At present, 8 posts including the post of Chief Information Commissioner are vacant in the Central Information Commission (CIC). Till a few months ago, Hiralal Samaria was the Chief Information Commissioner of India, but the post is vacant after Samaria’s retirement on 13 September 2025. The selection committee of Central Information Commission members includes Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi. Today the meeting of these three leaders in PMO was on this issue.
Discussion on appointment of Information Commissioners as well as Vigilance Commissioners
In fact, this long meeting held in the PMO on Wednesday has given rise to discussions. This is because the information available was only about the appointment of the Chief Information Commissioner. 88 minutes later, when Rahul Gandhi emerged from the PMO, it became clear that the meeting discussed the appointments of one Chief Information Commissioner, 8 Information Commissioners and one Vigilance Commissioner.
Rahul Gandhi has lodged a written objection
According to sources, Rahul Gandhi has registered his objection to all these appointments. The Congress leader has given his objection in writing. Whenever meetings have been held in the past regarding these appointments, the opposition leaders, be it Kharge or Rahul, have expressed objections. Same thing has happened this time too.
Main information related to Central Information Commission
Under Section 12(3) of the Right to Information Act, the Prime Minister heads a committee, also including the Leader of the Opposition and a Union Minister nominated by the Prime Minister, which selects and recommends names for the appointment of the Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners. As per the RTI Act, the CIC consists of a Chief Information Commissioner and 10 Information Commissioners, who decide complaints and appeals filed by RTI applicants against unsatisfactory orders of government officials on their applications. According to the CIC website, it has 30,838 cases pending with it. It currently has only two information commissioners, Anandi Ramalingam and Vinod Kumar Tiwari, and eight posts are vacant. Hiralal Samaria was the last Chief Information Commissioner, who left the post on September 13 after completing 65 years of age. He was appointed the Chief Information Commissioner on November 6, 2023.
