HYDERABAD: Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy is understood to have deferred a decision on what he should do regarding the appointment of eight information commissioners under Right to Information Act in wake of governor ESL Narasimhan returning file on February 21, taking objection to appointment of four of them.The government sent the file to the governor on February 17 for his assent to the appointments but the governor returned the proposal in a sealed cover on Tuesday suggesting reconsideration of the four appointments of Varre Venkateswarlu, Lam Tantiya Kumari, Imtiaz Ahmed and M.Vijaya Nirmala since they have affiliation to the Congress.TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, who participated in the selection process on January 31 and raised no objection to any of appointees, changed his stance later and sent a dissent note.According to sources, the chief minister, who does not want to admit defeat, has been considering sending the proposal to the governor once again for ratification, justifying the four appointments to whom the governor had taken objection.The chief minister, regardless of what the governor's reaction will be, wants to send the file as it is. In view of the by-elections, he does not want to run the risk of raising the curtain for another controversy in case the file were to be rejected again.Though his supporters are confident that the governor cannot reject the file if it is sent for the second time.
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