Kutty Nair under attack

THE Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, TKA Nair, who is also known as Kutty Nair, is surprisingly under attack in Delhi’s power circles and the media. Now, this is something that’s happening for the first time. Nobody dares to attack the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister. Whoever dared to do it in the past was shown the door.
It all started with the controversy regarding the appointment of PJ Thomas as CVC and the PM’s statement in Parliament that the note prepared by the DoPT did not contain the information about the chargesheet. Immediately after this, the Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly raised the issue and stalled the House. The shrewd Prithviraj Chavan, who knows by whom the PM is briefed before giving a statement in Parliament, acted quickly. Within a day or so, a weekly magazine published a story on how Kutty Nair was introduced into the PMO with the help of NN Vohra and Rashpal Malhotra, Director-General of CRRID, Chandigarh. The story narrates Nair’s rise in the PMO and his fondness for officers from Kerala.
The fact is that the same set that is friendly with Nair in Delhi is equally pally with Chavan in Mumbai. But, was the race wrong when it coined the adage, “As you sow, so shall you reap”?