Sreenivasan Krishnan was director in Robert Vadra companies

NEW DELHI: Sreenivasan Krishnan, a Kochi-based businessman and a former Indian Information Service officer who served as the personal secretary of the late Congress leader and Indira Gandhi loyalist K Karunakaran, was a director in four companies fully or partly-owned by Robert Vadra at various points, according to filings with the ministry of corporate affairs.

Krishnan has worked as news editor at Doordarshan Kendra in Thiruvananthapuram, and later served as personal secretary when Karunakaran was Kerala chief minister. Krishnan also worked in Karunakaran's staff when the Congress leader, widely known as 'leader', became the industries minister at the Centre in 1995.

It's unclear how Krishnan came to be associated with Vadra. Krishnan replaced Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as a director in aircraft charter firm Blue Breeze Trading in July 2008, a position he quit in February 2011. In March 2009, he became a director in Saket Holidays Resorts Pvt Ltd.

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In June 2010, he became a director in Prowess Buildcon Pvt Ltd; and in September 2010, he was made a director in Cleva Builders and Developers Pvt Ltd. By February 2011, he had quit all directorships in companies associated with Vadra. Prowess Buildcon and Cleva Builders were at one point owned jointly by DLF and Sky Light Hospitality, a company owned by the Vadra family.

Krishnan currently runs manpower firm Ashwin Enterprises in Kochi, apart from real estate company Sreejoh Realtors Pvt Ltd. He remained unreachable on the phone and did not respond to an email. Vadra did not respond to emailed questions about his links with Krishnan.