Pulok chatterjee biography books

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Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India

No.Portrait Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of IndiaTook officeLeft officeTime in officeServicePrime Minister of India1

Haskar, P. N.P. N. Haksar
(1913–1998)6 December 1971 (1971-12-06)28 February 1973 (1973-02-28)1 year, 84 daysIndian Foreign ServiceGandhi, IndiraIndira Gandhi (INC)2

Shankar, V.V. Shankar4 April 1977 (1977-04-04)31 July 1979 (1979-07-31)2 years, 118 daysIndian Civil ServiceDesai, MorarjiMorarji Desai (JP)3

Alexander, P. C.P. C. Alexander
(1921–2011)2 May 1981 (1981-05-02)18 January 1985 (1985-01-18)3 years, 261 daysIndian Administrative ServiceGandhi, IndiraIndira Gandhi (INC)
(2 May 1981 (1981-05-02) – 31 October 1984 (1984-10-31))
Rajiv Gandhi (INC)
(31 October 1984 (1984-10-31) – 18 January 1985 (1985-01-18))4

Deshmukh, B. G.B. G. Deshmukh
(1929–2011)27 March 1989 (1989-03-27)11 December 1990 (1990-12-11)1 year, 259 daysIndian Administrative ServiceGa

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The Seven-Year Itch

Sonia Gandhi protagonist Pulok Chatterjee replaces Manmohan’s man TKA Nair. But that get out of isn’t miserable to appoint the PMO

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Pulok Chatterjee: Bureaucrat in the eye of the storm

Bureaucrats are supposed to be faceless, anonymous.

Pulok Chatterjee might not have bargained for the arc lights that turned on him because of Sanjaya Baru, a former colleague in the PMO, who said in his book Chatterjee was a sort of 10 Janpath mole at 7 Race Course Road and in South Block.

Those who know Chatterjee say he is an officer and a gentleman and he is not the brusque and arrogant bureaucrat who used his key position to either throw his weight around or do mishcief of any kind on behalf of his benefactors.

Benefactors he had, and it was no less than Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. He was the district magistrate at Sultanpur during the 1984 Lok Sabha elections and it was from this time that Rajiv Gandhi noticed him, and he became close to the family.

In the last 20 years, Chatterjee has served as director of Rajiv Gandhi Foundation for six years, and as secretary to Sonia Gandhi between 1998 and 2004 when she was leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. And between 2004 and 2009, as a trusted aide of Sonia Gandhi in the PMO and then again from 2010 onwards. So, much of his official career was spent in the Nehru-Gandhi orbit.

According to a senior bureaucrat, who too is very close to the Gandhis, Chatterjee was a