Slimmer portfolio awaits new NSA
Siddharth Varadarajan
Although the decision to shift National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan out of the Prime Minister’s Office and into a vacant Raj Bhavan has been taken, the government has yet to decide on his successor or the State to which he will go as governor.
One thing, however, is certain: the role and office of the NSA, which is still very much a work in progress as far as the wider architecture of governance is concerned, is likely to focus more exclusively on the problems of diplomatic engagement rather than internal security management.
This shift in emphasis, which began when P. Chidambaram took charge of the Home Ministry in 2008, will both influence — and be influenced by — the choice of the next NSA.
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