Above: Vijay Gokhale/Photo: UNI
India Legal once again hit the nail on the head when its prediction of who would be the next Foreign Secretary came true on January 1 when Vijay Gokhale’s name was announced for the post.
In the Delhi Durbar (which features the latest gossips in the bureaucratic circles in New Delhi) column of the issue dated January 1, 2018, Dilip Bobb predicted that Vijay Gokhale (Read the story here) could get the coveted post of Foreign Secretary .
The story titled Foreign Focus said: “The public is hardly interested in who the foreign secretary should be but the IFS cadre certainly is. One name doing the rounds as successor was current ambassador to the US, Navtej Singh Sarna but he is due to retire on December 31, 2017 and has already served out an extention. The smart money is on Vijay Gokhale, India’s envoy to Beijing, who was brought back to South Block as Secretary (Economic Relations). Gokhale’s experience will be invaluable in relations with China being vital to India’s security interests.”
It is not the first time that India Legal’s prediction has come true. In April 2017 (Delhi Durbar column), Dilip Bobb had predicted that Kenneth Juster will be the next US ambassador to India.
—India Legal Bureau