KK Sharma to be the next Chief Secretary of Delhi

NEW DELHI: Acceding to the demand of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has appointed senior IAS officer, Goa Chief Secretary KK Sharma, as Delhi’s new CS. His formal appointment orders were issued on Monday.

ET was the first to report, on Sunday, that the Union Home Ministry was likely to agree to Kejriwal’s second request and Sharma would be appointed Chief Secretary.

Kejriwal wrote a hard-hitting letter to Singh on Saturday, saying that if his first choice in the Arunachal CS Ramesh Negi could not be appointed to the post, the Centre should appoint Sharma, a 1983 batch IAS officer.

"I would request you that if you cannot appoint Negi as the Delhi CS, then please make Goa’s CS, KK Sharma as Delhi’s CS," Kejriwal wrote to Singh. The Home Minister "immediately agreed" with Kejriwal’s request as Sharma falls in the Rs 80000 apex pay scale while Negi did not, a senior official in the Home Ministry said.