The officials, from the prime minister’s office, the home (interior) ministry and the foreign ministry, declined to be named because of the sensitivity of the subject. There are about 25 senior civil servants working in the prime minister’s office, which under Modi has become the single most powerful department in government. A spokesman in the prime minister’s office did not return phone calls seeking comment. But in India, officials in the prime minister’s office are hand-picked for loyalty and tend to stay if the administration is re-elected. There is a wider concern in the civil service about India being ruled by a Hindu nationalist party that some see destroying the country’s previous tolerant and secular nature.

Source: Pakistan Today April 10, 2019 17:03 UTC