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Was in loop about Jaishankar appointment: Sushma
New Delhi, Jan 29
External Affairs Minister
Sushma Swaraj Thursday said she was aware of the move to appoint S.
Jaishankar as the new foreign secretary and had spoken about it to
incumbent Sujatha Singh.
In a series of tweets, hours after
Jaishankar met her after taking charge, Sushma Swaraj said: "Since
Jaishankar was retiring on 31st January, we had to issue orders of his
appointment before that date."
"Then I spoke to Ms Sujatha Singh
personally. I told her that the government wanted to appoint Dr.
Jaishankar as Foreign Secretary," the minister tweeted.
Jaishankar
met Sushma Swaraj in her South Block office after taking charge.
Sujatha Singh was not present at the taking over event.
The
Narendra Modi government on Wednesday night appointed Jaishankar, an
Indian Foreign Service officer of 1977 batch, as the new foreign
secretary. The cabinet's Appointments Committee, headed by Prime
Minister Modi, in a decision taken Wednesday night, decided to "curtail
the tenure" of the incumbent Sujatha Singh "with immediate effect".
Jaishankar was till Wednesday India's envoy to the US