'Rajdhani Ke Rahasya' Episode 2: What Explains the Modi Government's Attack on the CBI?

Name: Rajdhani Ke Rahasya Episode 2: What Explains the Modi Governments Attack on the CBI? - The Wire
Uploaded: 2018-10-30T12:00:20+05:30
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Description: Abhisar Sharma and Rohini Singh dissect the real reasons behind the Narendra Modi government's midnight coup against the CBI director.

Abhisar Sharma and Rohini Singh dissect the real reasons behind the Narendra Modi government's midnight coup against the CBI director.

Rohini Singh

Abhisar Sharma

Abhisar Sharma and Rohini Singh dissect the real reasons behind the Narendra Modi government's midnight coup against the CBI director.

rajdhani ke rahasya episode 2 what explains the modi government s attack on the cbi

Mediapersons outside the CBI headquarters in New Delhi, on October 24, 2018. Credit: PTI/Ravi Choudhary

In a decision that has engulfed the capital in a political storm, the Narendra Modi government, with a midnight order, acted to remove CBI director Alok Verma from his post by appointing CBI joint director M. Nageshwar Rao as the interim chief of the agency.

However, the government order has been met with resistance as Verma has moved the Supreme Court and challenged his approval even as opposition parties have called the move "illegal".

Abhisar Sharma and Rohini Singh dissect the real reasons behind the Modi government's midnight coup against the CBI director.

Follow The Wire's coverage of the CBI controversy here.

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