Mayankodu Kelath Narayanan IPS (Retd.) | |
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| 18thGovernor of West Bengal | |
| In office 24 January 2010 – 30 June 2014 | |
| Chief Minister | Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Mamata Banerjee |
| Preceded by | Devanand Konwar(additional charge) |
| Succeeded by | D. Y. Patil(additional charge) |
| ActingGovernor of Sikkim | |
| In office 7 Apr 2010 – 30 Apr 2010 | |
| 3rdNational Security Advisor of India | |
| In office 3 January 2005 – 23 January 2010 | |
| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Preceded by | J. N. Dixit |
| Succeeded by | Shivshankar Menon |
| Director of Intelligence Bureau | |
| In office January 1991 - February 1992 | |
| In office April 1987 – December 1989 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1934-03-10)10 March 1934 (age 91) |
| Spouse | Padmini Narayanan |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Loyola College, Chennai University of Madras |
| Awards | Padma Shri (1992) |
Mayankodu Kelath Narayanan (born 10 March 1934) is a retiredIPS officer who served as theNational Security Adviser of India from 2005 to 2010, assuming the role after the demise of his predecessorJyotindra Nath Dixit in January 2005.[1][2] Subsequently, he served as 19thGovernor of West Bengal from 2010 to 2014.[3] TheGovernment of India awarded him the civilian honour ofPadma Shri in 1992.[4]
M K Narayanan hails from Kelath family atOttapalam,Palakkad, a district of the stateKerala.[5]
Narayanan did his schooling fromMadras Christian College Higher Secondary School.[6] He completed his graduation fromLoyola College, Chennai. He is married to Padmini Narayanan and the couple has a son, Vijay, and a daughter, Meena. Their son-in-law Ajit Nambiar is Chairman and Managing Director of BPL Ltd.[7]
M. K. Narayanan joined theIndian Police Service in 1955 and passed out with the highest marks. After a brief stint as Sub-Divisional Police Officer in the erstwhile State of Madras, he went on deputation to theIntelligence Bureau in February 1959. The rest of his service career was spent under theGovernment of India, mainly in the Intelligence Bureau, in which he dealt with a whole range of issues concerning internal and national security.
He headed theIntelligence Bureau (IB) from 1987 to 1990, before heading theJoint Intelligence Committee for a year. He became Chief (a four-star rank, equivalent to an Army general) of the IB again in 1991, before retiring in 1992. He was then appointed Special Adviser (a non-Civil Service appointment) for Internal Security to thePrime Minister of India beginning in May 2004.[8]
He was IndianNational Security Adviser with the rank of Minister of State from 2005 to 2010. He was the NSA during the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and had offered to resign owing to the failures which led to the attacks. He was asked by Manmohan Singh, the then Prime Minister to stay on.[9] He played a significant role in the negotiation of theIndo-US Civil Nuclear Agreement. He took over asGovernor of West Bengal fromGopalkrishna Gandhi, who had a few disagreements with the thenCPI(M)-ruled state on critical issues like violence inNandigram andSingur.
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| Preceded by | Governor of West Bengal 24 January 2011 – 30 June 2014 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | National Security Advisor January 2005 – January 2011 | Succeeded by |
| Government offices | ||
| Preceded by H. A. Barari | Director of the Intelligence Bureau April 1987 - December 1989 | Succeeded by R. P. Joshi |
| Preceded by R. P. Joshi | Director of the Intelligence Bureau January 1991 - February 1992 | Succeeded by V. G. Vaidya |
