Port Blair, Oct. 3: The State President and committee members of Hindu Rashtra Shakti, Andaman & Nicobar Islands have expressed deepest condolence on the demise of Late Shakti Sinha, IAS. He was the Director of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Policy Research and International Studies, MS University, Vadodara. Mr Sinha was the former Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) and was part of the Indian Administrative Service from the 1979 batch. He has also served as a Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office in the past.

He was deeply attached to these Islands and served here twice, in the capacity of Deputy Commissioner and later as Chief Secretary.

The Hindu Rashtra Shakti has prayed to the Almighty to give strength to his bereaved family members and to bear this irreparable loss. May his soul rest in peace.