Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Principal Advisor P K Sinha resigns

PK Sinha is learned to have stepped down from the post of Principal Advisor to the Prime Minister on Monday. His name is no longer visible in the list of officers on the Prime Minister’s Office’s (PMO) website.

Sinha didn’t respond to a text message sent by ET. Emails sent to OSD (Communications and IT) at the PMO and the Principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau did not elicit a response.

The exact reasons for Sinha’s departure from South Block couldn’t be ascertained. A person familiar with the development said Sinha had relinquished his position for ‘personal reasons.’ There is also speculation that he might be given a new assignment.


Sinha was first appointed as the Officer on Special Duty in the PMO in August 2019 and was soon made Principal Advisor to the Prime Minister as PK Mishra replaced Nripendra Misra as Principal Secretary to the PM.

Prior to this, Sinha served as Cabinet Secretary from June 2015 to August 2019. A 1977 batch IAS officer from Uttar Pradesh, he has been a secretary in the ministries of Power and Shipping. He also served as a special secretary in the ministry of petroleum and natural gas.