Question: Shakti Sinha, former bureaucrat died of cardiac arrest, was private secretary to the which of the following Prime Minister of India?
(a) Narendra Modi
(b) Manmohan Singh
(c) Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(d) None of these
Answer: (c)
Related Facts:
- Shakti Sinha, former IAS officer who was private secretary to late prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, passed away.
- Shakti Sinha, an IAS officer of the 1979 batch, of the AGMUT cadre.
- Sinha opted for voluntary retirement in 2013 while he was serving as Finance Secretary in the Delhi government led by Sheila Dixit.
- He earlier served as private secretary to Atal Bihari Vajpayee between 1996 and 1999 and later went on to become his OSD when Vajpayee became the Prime Minister.
BY: AMIT GUPTA