P. N. Haksar | |
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Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission | |
In office 4 January 1975 – 31 May 1977 | |
Prime Minister | Indira Gandhi |
1st Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India | |
In office 6 December 1971 – 28 February 1973 | |
Prime Minister | Indira Gandhi |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | V. Shankar |
2nd Secretary to the Prime Minister of India | |
In office 1967 – 5 December 1971 | |
Preceded by | Lakshmi Kant Jha |
Succeeded by | Office temporarily abolished |
Personal details | |
Born | Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar September 4, 1913 Gujranwala, Punjab, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan) |
Died | November 25, 1998 New Delhi, Delhi, India | (aged 85)
Spouse | Urmila Sapru |
Children | Nandita Haksar, Anamika Haksar |
Parmeshwar Narayan Haksar (4 September 1913 – 25 November 1998) was an Indian bureaucrat and diplomat, best known for his two-year stint as Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's principal secretary (1971–73). In that role, Haksar was the chief strategist and policy adviser behind his inexperienced prime minister's rise to near-absolute power in the mid-1970s. After this he was appointed deputy chairman of the Planning Commission and then the first-ever chancellor of New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University.
An advocate of centralisation and socialism, he was a Kashmiri Pandit who became Gandhi's closest confidant in her inner coterie of bureaucrats, the so-called "Kashmiri mafia". Prior to this, Haksar was a diplomat of the Indian Foreign Service, who served as India's ambassador to Austria and Nigeria.
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