Question

Who has been appointed as a Senior Security Adviser in the Union Home Ministry in December 2019?
1. K Shiva Kumar
2. K Vijay Kumar
3. Ajit Doval
4. S Jaishankar

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : K Vijay Kumar

The correct answer is K Vijay Kumar.

• K Vijay Kumar has been appointed as a senior security advisor in the Union Home Ministry headed by Amit Shah.
  • The 1975 batch officer of Indian Police Service will “advise the ministry on security-related matters of Union Territory of J&K and Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected States.
  • Kumar has served as Director-General of CRPF, Director of National Police Academy in Hyderabad and his most talked-about stint was as the chief of the Tamil Nadu police special task force that killed forest brigand Veerappan in 2004.
  • After his retirement from service and as DG, CRPF in 2012, Kumar was appointed as senior security advisor LWE in the Home Ministry then headed by Rajnath Singh.

• Doddalahalli Kempegowda Shivakumar is an Indian politician and businessman who is currently serving as the President of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.
  • He was the state minister of irrigation in the cabinet of H. D. Kumaraswamy.
• Ajit Kumar Doval is the fifth and current National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India.
  • He previously served as the Director of the Intelligence Bureau in 2004–05, after spending a decade as the head of its operation wing.
• Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is an Indian diplomat and politician who is the current Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 31^st May 2019.
  • He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019, representing Gujarat.