Sending out a strong message, the Prime Minister Office has struck down Union Minister Rajnath Singh’s choice of private secretary.
While the Minister wanted Alok Singh, a 1995 batch UP cadre officer to assist him, sources say the PM rejected his appointment as he had served as the personal secretary to former Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid.
Sources say the PMO does not want private secretaries from the previous UPA government to be given close positions in the Modi government.
It has to be noted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in in a Cabinet meeting earlier this month directed his ministers to chose their office staff carefully and had ordered them not to zero in on their family members.
