GC Murmu, who steps out as the lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir, is the Comptroller and Auditor General
GC Murmu, who steps out as the lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir , is the Comptroller and Auditor General New Delhi: GC Murmu, who resigned a day before as the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, has been appointed as the new Auditor General of the country. Mr. Murmu resigned from his post on Wednesday and Manoj Sinha was appointed as his successor. The post of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) was expected to be vacant this week as Rajiv Mehrishi turns 65. The Comptroller and Auditor General is a constitutional post and cannot be left vacant. A senior bureaucrat at the Cabinet Secretariat told NDTV on Thursday, "Rajiv Mehrishi turns 65 on August 8. So the government is in a hurry. A highly influential post, former Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai wrote a report that began the 2G telecom spectrum scandal, widely seen as one of the biggest contributors to the Congress' 2014 debacle. . In the years since, the report failed to be placed in court. Govern...