Who are the men the prime abbot relies on to assassinate his absorbing agenda? Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com finds out.
As expected, Prime Abbot Narendra Modi has alleged his arrangement agents on the curve of the Gandhinagar model.
When he was arch abbot of Gujarat, his arrangement was the nodal centre of power. His agents functioned to create, assassinate and accomplish a success of what is now alleged the 'Gujarat model'.
Gujarat's ministers were an addendum of the Arch Minister's Office. One will accept to see if abounding Union ministries, decidedly in the basement sector, becomes a annex arrangement of the Prime Minister's Office.
Like best Indian politicians, while Modi's alternative action for his arrangement agents is on predicted lines, his priorities are actually distinct.
First and foremost, what Modi brand is that his Indian Authoritative Service admiral and added admiral action in a easygoing manner. No two means about it! It is best important that these admiral accept no allure caliber of their own.
Two, for accessible reasons, he doesn't like anybody basic their own ability centre, as L K Jha had done in Lal Bahadur Shastri's time or Brajesh Mishra did with Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Three, he brand his admiral to be financially honest. It is additionally absurd to get noticed by Modi if the administrator is not hard-working. Modi brand karmath (doers). Also, Modi's admiral accept to accumulate up with avant-garde technology and administering jargon.
Modi has formed with admiral who are acute to 'grass roots akin administration' and are not artlessly high-flying associates of the aristocratic cadre. He demands that his admiral be 'aligned' to his angle and style.
The way Modi functions, it is actually acute that none of his confidants say annihilation of actuality to the media. Someone who craves to allocution to the media is not 'Modi's person', really.
It goes afterwards adage that cipher occupies a abode in Modi's arrangement unless s/he has categorical accreditation for actuality loyal to the boss. The Loyalty Factor is the accessible claim of all Indian politicians afterwards exception. Only, in Prime Abbot Modi's case, it is added so.
Modi's bodies are best absurd to absolute the oft-heard book -- there is activity above work. Not really.
All of Modi's men -- be it his baker Badri or his claimed abettor Omprakash, or his trusted A K Sharma and Bharat Lal -- are accessible 24x7. Even above arrangement hours they assignment silently and, added importantly, efficiently.
The best important being in the PMO afterwards Modi is his arch secretary, Nripendra Misra, 69. He is a retired IAS administrator of the 1967 accumulation from the Uttar Pradesh cadre.
Misra, who has served in assorted capacities in the government, retired as administrator of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in 2009. He is accurate and appropriately accomplished for the accustomed job.
But there was an affair over his arrangement aback the TRAI Act did not acquiesce for it. The Modi government issued its aboriginal authorization to affected this. This needs to be ratified by Parliament, article that was not done in the afresh assured session, so it is acceptable that it will be done in the Budget session.
It may not be able-bodied known, but aback Misra served in Lucknow in again arch abbot Mulayam Singh Yadav's office, things didn't go able-bodied amid them. Yadav affronted so adversarial that he besmirched Misra's arcane almanac by authoritative abrogating animadversion about his bloom etc. Later, Cabinet Secretary T S R Subramanian, a UP core IAS officer, fabricated a beginning CR, allowance Misra.
Misra's alternative is hasty because he is a bit of a 'high-flier', and Modi's aboriginal claim from his admiral is that they accept to be low key and understated.
Some of Misra's aeon alarm him a high-flier because he has got prime postings throughout his career. He formed carefully with Yadav and Kalyan Singh aback they were UP arch ministers.
And how abounding IAS admiral can advertise the acquaintance of alive at the Indian admiral in Washington, at the Apple Barter Organisation as allocation of the aggregation in the Doha Rounds, as chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, and additionally as adviser to the Apple Bank, Asian Development Bank and with the government of Nepal?
Besides these stints, he was additionally secretary, administering of telecommunications and fertilisers. In the United Prograssive Alliance's 2G spectrum allocation scam, again telecom abbot A Raja, who is the prime accused in the case, alleges that he alone went by TRAI's advice. Misra was broiled for two canicule as an important attestant in the appropriate CBI cloister that is audition the case.
It is said that Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley afflicted aloft Modi the charge to accord Misra one of the best coveted posts in the government.
As anon as he was appointed, Misra gave a hasty account to a circadian bi-weekly advertence the Modi government's top 10 priorities. Everybody knows that in Modi's arrangement of things this is aloof not done. For Modi-watchers it was a shock to see Misra's account abundant afore Modi's arrangement could stabilise in South Block.
A few canicule later, Modi brought in one of his best trusted officers, Dr Pramod Kumar Mishra, as added arch secretary, the cardinal two to Nripendra Misra.
Like Misra, Dr Mishra has an enviable clue record. In Gujarat, he has apparent it all and done it all. He formed in the rural development, agriculture, cooperation and acquirement departments and in the Accompaniment Electricity Corporation and the Accompaniment Adversity Administering Authority.
As Union agronomics secretary amid 2006 and 2008 he was abaft the National Agronomics Development Programme and the National Food Security Mission. He formed relentlessly to admission India's agronomical GDP. His assignment in adversity administering was accepted at all-embracing forums.
Dr Mishra is from the 1972 accumulation which has affronted out to be one of the awfully ablaze batches in IAS history.
His arrangement is affecting because in all likelihood he will accept absolute admission to Modi and can adumbrate Nripendra Misra aural the abutting PMO. The best important affair about Dr Mishra, a Gujarat core IAS officer, is that in a way he, literally, accomplished Modi in the circuitous apple of authority and accessible administration.
The Odisha built-in was arch secretary to Modi in Gandhinagar amid 2001 and 2004, the years that fabricated Modi beyond than activity in India's accessible life.
Dr Mishra accomplished Modi the ABC of accessible behavior and movement of files central the system, aback Modi's alteration occurred from an RSS pracharak to the arch abbot of a activating state.
The day afterwards his retirement Dr Mishra was adopted by Modi to arch the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission for bristles years. Modi's awful advancing affairs for the ability area will appropriately be in awful able easily in the PMO. Dr Mishra is affable, amiable and soft-spoken. In fact, he is actually a adverse to Modi. They accomplish a abundant aggregate in accessible life.
The latest aspirant to the PMO is Rajiv Nayan Choubey, an IAS administrator of the 1981 accumulation from the Tamil Nadu cadre. He was added secretary in the admiral of power. He has adorning acquaintance in the petroleum and gas sectors, aback he functioned as administrator accepted of hydrocarbons. He is a Bihari and accomplished with Delhi's babu culture. In 2009-2010 he handled Tamil Nadu's interests as its appropriate citizen abettor in New Delhi.
Nripendra Misra has first-rate acquaintance of high-level barter negotiations, Dr P K Mishra has all-inclusive acquaintance of the grass-roots and agronomics sector. He, Bharat Lal and Arvind Sharma, a collective secretary in the PMO, would apperceive from Modi's anatomy accent what the prime abbot wants.
At the added end is Jagdish Thakker, accepted to adapt a columnist absolution aural bisected an hour of a Modi event. He never goofs up. He holds the appellation of Accessible Relations Administrator in the PMO, but gives the PM abundance in affairs of what to portray and what not to portray afore the media.
Thakkar is added in the 'department of image-building' than in the media. He helps Modi with quick translations. He is meticulous, like best of Modi's men are. He does filing and affidavit with conduct and knows Modi's weaknesses and strengths and serves him accordingly.
Since he knows the abreast history of Gujarat able-bodied -- he served beneath seven arch ministers -- Modi ethics his worth.
Jagdishbhai knows the secrets of Amarsinh Chaudhary and Madhavsinh Solanki, Shankarsinh Vaghela, Keshubhai Patel and Narendra Modi. But he will never allege out, and his ability of the twists and turns in Gandhinagar and now Modi's South Block arrangement will consistently abide a secret.
Back home Jagdishbhai was an able in giving Modi an appraisal of the bounded media and its attitude on assorted accepted issues.
Arvind Sharma, of the 1988 IAS batch, is accomplished with Uttar Pradesh, his birthplace. He is a religious man with astronomic backbone to accept to people. He has helped Modi in every accessible manner.
He is bottomward to apple and can airing into arrangement in jeans and a T-shirt at odd hours. He is actually agnate to the archetypal Hanuman Chalisa account accomplished man from UP who has built-in ability to excel whereever he goes, and, whatever he does, says a able who knows him.
He abutting Modi's CMO in October 2001 as a collective secretary anon afterwards Modi became arch abbot and was appointed added arch secretary to the arch abbot in April 2013.
To Modi he is added than family. Sharma handled issues alignment from industry to political issues. AK, as he is called, handled with aggressiveness the Vibrant Gujarat accident and contributed badly to what is now acclaimed as the Gujarat model.
AK is an administrator who never gets affronted and never falters beneath pressure. He has a way of administration cold-shoulder MLAs and of administration a huge aggregation beneath pressure. AK brings a apprehensive blow to the way he performs.
AK is additionally admired because he is the longest-serving batsman in Modi's aback office. He is acceptable to account bigger in New Delhi.
Bharat Lal, an administrator acceptance to the Indian Forest Service, has been abutting to Modi for a continued time. He helped Gujarat bag the Tata Nano car activity and accompanied Modi on adopted tours. He was a window to New Delhi for Modi's arrangement in Gandhinagar.
Most accompaniment arch ministers would absolutely like an administrator like him. He has such drive that aback the Badri-Kedarnath adversity happened afterwards the aberration atrophy aftermost year, Gujarat was the fastest in allowance the flood victims.
Hiren Joshi, an IT expert, who has additionally abutting Modi's PMO, suggests that the prime abbot will accumulate the accepted media beneath ascendancy or artlessly avoid it and acquaint through the amusing media to the people.
Joshi helps Modi to ability out to the Internet adeptness audience. He is a modern-day media communicator.
Modi's alternative of admiral reveals that there is no 'Gujarati lobby' as such in his PMO. There was what was alleged a 'Mallu lobby' in Dr Manmohan Singh's PMO area Malayalam-speaking admiral bedeviled that prime minister's office. But in the absence of abundant aptitude of Gujarati admiral in the civilian services, 'Gujaratisation' of the PMO is not possible. Surely, Modi will accomplish it business-friendly, in all likelihood.
Some junior-level admiral like Sanjay Bhavsar, Tanmay Mehta and Dinesh Thakur are additionally alive from Gandhinagar to New Delhi to advice 'Saheb' abide his advanced march. Sanjay is a government administrator who maintains Modi's appointments.
Modi has called Ajit Kumar Doval as his National Security Advisor. He is the best bohemian badge administrator in contempo times. His arrangement generated some altercation because his antecedent Shivshankar Menon was a diplomat. How Doval and Modi's aggregation will assignment calm is yet to be seen. Doval is set to change the 'charter' of the NSA's office. One does not apperceive if Modi wants to do the same.
Modi's arch appropriate as aggregation baton is that he is a acceptable listener. As with best leaders, there is a huge aberration amid the clandestine Modi and the accessible Modi. Those who assignment with him and accept formed with him say he is an alarming baton in blame his authoritative agenda.
Prime Abbot Modi, they say, is a awful charismatic, advancing and not-so-humble baton who brand absolutely apprehensive officers.
