04-24-2006, 11:21 PM
About Doval and link with Congress, He is 1968-batch IPS officer of the Kerala cadre. In 1974 Indira Gandhi gave him reward.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi, July 7: Setting to rest speculation about the next head of the Intelligence Bureau, <b>Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided to reward merit and seniority by appointing Ajit Doval, a 1968-batch IPS officer of the Kerala cadre, as its director</b>.
<b>Then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made an exception in awarding him the police medal, noting that he had achieved in six years what most are unable to do in their entire career but she also noted that this would not be held out as a precedent.</b>
Doval spent six years in Pakistan, a society on which his expertise in considered unrivalled. Almost like a comic book hero, Doval was actually inside the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1989 when the security forces were charging in during Operation Black Thunder to flush out terrorists from there. Subsequently, he was in London for three years and then in Kashmir.
<b>Doval worked in close co-operation with Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi </b>and several home ministers, including .K. Advani. <b>There was speculation that since Advani sought his advice often, a witch-hunt would ensure that Doval would not get the top job.</b>
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi, July 7: Setting to rest speculation about the next head of the Intelligence Bureau, <b>Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has decided to reward merit and seniority by appointing Ajit Doval, a 1968-batch IPS officer of the Kerala cadre, as its director</b>.
<b>Then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made an exception in awarding him the police medal, noting that he had achieved in six years what most are unable to do in their entire career but she also noted that this would not be held out as a precedent.</b>
Doval spent six years in Pakistan, a society on which his expertise in considered unrivalled. Almost like a comic book hero, Doval was actually inside the Golden Temple in Amritsar in 1989 when the security forces were charging in during Operation Black Thunder to flush out terrorists from there. Subsequently, he was in London for three years and then in Kashmir.
<b>Doval worked in close co-operation with Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi </b>and several home ministers, including .K. Advani. <b>There was speculation that since Advani sought his advice often, a witch-hunt would ensure that Doval would not get the top job.</b>
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