Ajit Doval | |
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5th National Security Advisor of India | |
Assumed office 30 May 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
Preceded by | Shivshankar Menon |
Director of the Intelligence Bureau | |
In office 31 July 2004 –31 January 2005 | |
Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
Preceded by | K. P. Singh |
Succeeded by | E. S. L. Narasimhan |
Personal details | |
Born | Ghiri Banelsyun,Pauri Garhwal,United Provinces,British India (now in Uttarakhand,India) | 20 January 1945
Nationality | India |
Spouse | Aruni Doval (m. 1972) |
Children | 2 (including Shaurya Doval) |
Residence(s) | New Delhi, India |
Alma mater | Agra University (MA) National Defence College (M.Phil.) |
Occupation | • National Security Advisors to Prime minister [1] • Retd. IPS officer |
Profession | Bureaucrat, [1] Spymaster |
Awards | Kirti Chakra Police Medal President's Police Medal |
Nickname | James Bond of India [2] |
Ajit Kumar Doval KC PPM PM (born 20 January 1945) is a bureaucrat, spymaster and National Security Advisor (NSA) of India to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. [3] He was Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief and Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from Kerala cadre. [4] [5] [6] [7]
He previously served as the director of the IB in 2004–05, after working for a decade as the head of its operation wing. [8] He worked as an undercover spy of IB for one year in Pakistan then 6 years as an officer in Indian high commission in Islamabad. [9] He spent most part of his career as a spy of IB. [9]
His successful operation as a spy and intelligence head includes Operation Black Thunder 1988, rescue of 46 Indian national in Iraq, 2015's operation versus Nagaland militants with the India army, to sabotage terror organisation PFI and many more. [3] [9] [10]
He is the founder director of the right of centre leaning think tank Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), before appointment as NSA. It was founded in December 2009. [11] [12]
Doval was born in 1945 in Ghiri Banelsyun village in Pauri Garhwal in the erstwhile United Provinces, now in Uttarakhand. Doval's father, Major G. N. Doval, was an officer in the Indian Army. [13] [4] [14]
He received his early education at the Ajmer Military School in Ajmer, Rajasthan. [5] He graduated with a master's degree in economics from the Agra University in 1967. [14]
Doval joined the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1968 in the Kerala cadre as the Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Kottayam district. [15] [16] He was posted in north-east India.[ when? ] He was a spy of IB, lived in Pakistan for seven years and did espionage. [17] [18]
He was actively involved in anti-insurgency operations in Punjab. [19] [ when? ]
Doval worked in Thalassery, Kerala, for a few months in 1972, before joining the central service. [20] He has the experience of being involved in the termination of all 15 hijackings of Indian Airlines aircraft from 1971 to 1999. [21] In the headquarters, he headed IB's operations wing for over a decade and was founder Chairman of the Multi Agency Centre (MAC), as well as of the Joint Task Force on Intelligence (JTFI). [22]
In 1988 during Operation Black Thunder, he infiltrated in Golden temple posing as an ISI agent, did espionage on Khalistani separatists, Doval gathered information about their weapons and made maps of their positions, he became an important member in their group gave wrong advices to them to sabotaged, it helped National Security Guards (NSG) to win Golden Temple. [23] [24]
He played a role in intelligence for Sikkim's merger with India. [25] [26] He was trained under M. K. Narayanan, the third National Security Advisor of India for a brief period in counterterrorism operations. [27] He was part of the team which sent to Kandahar, Afghanistan for negotiations to release passengers of hijacked aeroplane IC-814. [25] [28] [29]
He was later appointed on the post of, director of the Intelligence Bureau. [29]
The alleged 2016 Surgical strike on Pakistan was part of Ajit Doval's 'offensive defence strategy'. [30] Though, Pakistan rejected India's claim, and said that Indian troops did not cross the Line of Control and had only skirmished with Pakistani troops at the border.
Doval was one of the seven persons who knew about India's classified 2019 Balakot airstrike, including Indian Navy, army, airforce chiefs and prime minister Narendra Modi. After Pakistan based terrorist attacked convoy of CRPF by car bomb in Pulwama and martyred 40, India airforce conducted an airstrike on alleged terrorist bases in Pakistan. Doval was awake that whole night with dignitaries in the war room. [31]
Doval retired in January 2005 as Director, Intelligence Bureau. [32] In December 2009, he became the founding Director of the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), a public policy think tank set up by the Vivekananda Kendra. [33] [34] Doval has remained actively involved in the discourse on national security in India. [35] [36] Besides writing editorial pieces for several leading newspapers and journals, he has delivered lectures on India's security challenges and foreign policy objectives at several renowned government and non-governmental institutions, security think-tanks in India and abroad. [37] [38]
In 2009 and 2011 he co-wrote two reports on "Indian Black Money Abroad in Secret Banks and Tax Havens", [39] with others, leading in the field as a part of the task force constituted by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). [40]
In 2012, IB eyed on him due to then ruling party Congress's suspicions on Doval and his think tank VIF with the doubts that he and VIF were the brains behind Ramdev and Anna Hazare led anti-corruption movement, which generated anger against government. [41] Many members of VIF got appointed to top government positions after BJP came into power. [12]
In recent years, he has delivered guest lectures on strategic issues at IISS, London, Capitol Hill, Washington DC, Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne, National Defence College, New Delhi and the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. [42] Doval has also spoken internationally at global events, citing the ever-increasing need of co-operation between the major established and emerging powers of the world. [43]
On 30 May 2014, Doval was appointed as India's fifth National Security Advisor. In June 2014, Doval facilitated the return of 46 Indian nurses who were trapped in a hospital in Tikrit, Iraq, following the capture of Mosul by ISIL. Doval, flew to Iraq on 25 June 2014 to understand the position on the ground and make high-level contacts in the Iraqi government. [44] Although the exact circumstances of their release are unclear, on 5 July 2014, ISIL militants handed the nurses to Kurdish authorities at Erbil city and an Air India plane specially-arranged by the Indian government brought them back home to Kochi. [45]
Along with Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag, Doval planned a cross-border military operation against National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) separatists operating out of Myanmar. Indian officials claimed that the mission was a success and 20-38 separatist belonging to Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K) were killed in the operation. [46] [47] [48] [49] However, the Myanmar government denied the strikes. According to Myanmar officials, the Indian operation against NSCN-K took place entirely on the Indian side of the border. [50] [51]
He is widely credited for the doctrinal shift in Indian national security policy in relation to Pakistan. [52] It was speculated that the September 2016 Indian strikes in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir were his brainchild. [53] [54] [55] [56] Doval is widely credited along with then Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar and Indian Ambassador to China Vijay Keshav Gokhale, for resolving Doklam Standoff through diplomatic channels and negotiations. [57] [58] [59]
In October 2018, he was appointed as the Chairman of the Strategic Policy Group (SPG), which is the first tier of a three tier structure at the National Security Council and forms the nucleus of its decision-making apparatus. [60]
Following the 2019 Balakot airstrike and retaliatory 2019 Jammu and Kashmir airstrikes and subsequent capture of Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman by Pakistani military, Ajit Doval had held talks with US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to secure the release of the Indian pilot. [61]
On 3 June 2019, he was reappointed as NSA for 5 years and granted the personal rank of a Cabinet Minister. [62] Doval is the first NSA to hold such a rank. He is widely considered to be one of Modi's most powerful and trusted advisors, with major influence over India's national security and foreign affairs.
He was also an instrumental figure in revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. [63]
On 26, Feb 2020, Ajit Doval walked the streets of riot-hit northeast Delhi to assess the situation and reassure the local residents. [64]
On 15 May 2020, the military forces of Myanmar handed over a group of 22 militant leaders, active in Assam and other northeast states, to the Indian government. This was made possible through negotiations headed by Doval. [65] [66]
On 15 September 2020, Doval walked out of a virtual SCO meeting after Pakistan projected a fictitious map omitting parts of India. [67]
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