New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday said she had personally communicated to Sujatha Singh the government’s decision to appoint S Jaishankar as the new Foreign Secretary.
“I told her that the Government wanted to appoint Dr Jaishankar as Foreign Secretary,” Swaraj said in a tweet adding, “Then I spoke to Sujatha Singh personally.”
Jaishankar, Ambassador to the US, was appointed last night as the new Foreign Secretary in a surprise decision by the Union Cabinet’s Appointment Committee, which is headed by the Prime Minister.
The 1977-batch IFS officer who had only two days to go for his retirement will have a two-year tenure as per the rules.
The sacking of Singh has come under criticism from Congress.
