Meeting on committee on Lokpal selection to choose jurist

New Delhi, March 01: A meeting of the committee on Lokpal selection was held here on Thursday to choose an eminent jurist on the panel, informed sources said.

Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge did not attend the meeting, the outcome of which was not immediately known.

Kharge had declined to attend the meeting as a 'Special Invitee', saying he was doing so to protect the "inviolability" of the Lokpal Act as the sacred procedure had been reduced to a political pretence".

The Congress leader had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to convey his stance.