The advent of the Prime Ministers Office

August 20, 2012 15:05

Over a month after becoming prime minister, and barely a few days after recovering from illness, Lal Bahadur Shastri created yet another sensation. He set up an altogether new institution in the governmental system that almost immediately, and perhaps inevitably, became a new power centre.

He called it the "Prime Minister's Secretariat', which endures to this day though it is now called the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). It was Morarji Desai who changed the name in 1977 almost entirely out of spite for his predecessor, Indira Gandhi.

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