All top four officers in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) will continue on their posts much in line with the “continuity” formula seen in Team Modi 3.0. Ajit Doval has been appointed the national security adviser (NSA) for a third term, while Dr PK Mishra will continue as the principal secretary to the Prime Minister for a second term. Amit Khare and Tarun Kapoor have been kept as advisers to the Prime Minister like in the previous term.
Doval and Mishra will be assigned the rank of cabinet ministers and their term will be co-terminus with that of the Prime Minister or until further orders, whichever is earlier. Khare and Kapoor will be working in the rank and scale of secretary.
Mishra had worked as additional principal secretary to the Prime Minister in the first term of Narendra Modi before taking over as the principal secretary from Nripendra Misra in the PM’s second term. Mishra, who has retired from the IAS, had worked for a long time in Gujarat too when Narendra Modi was the chief minister.
Both Doval and Mishra have been key bureaucrats and advisers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and have been involved in the big decisions taken since 2014. They, along with Khare and Kapoor, will also be key to driving important policy decisions of Modi’s third term and hence continuity has been adopted on this account, sources said.
Doval is continuing as the NSA at a crucial time for Jammu and Kashmir with the upcoming Amarnath Yatra and the assembly elections in the state expected in September.
Amit Khare and Tarun Kapoor were appointed as advisers to the PM in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
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