THUS SPOKE P.K. BASU, IAS
Friends and Countrymen! As an IAS officer I have always kept myself equidistant from all political parties. My allegiance was ONLY to the Constitution of India and my Conscience. In the course of my career I have seen several political parties and their leaders. In my allotted state Bihar, I have seen Karpoori Thakur , Jagganath Mishra , Chandrashekhar Singh, Bindeshwari Dubey , Bhagwat Jha Azad, Sachidanand Singh, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar as Chief Ministers. At the centre I had Kalpnath Rai , N K P Salve, Venugopala Chari, Y K Alagh , Arun Shourie , P. Chidambaram and Sharad Pawar as my Ministers. Apart from this, I had to face ministers like Pranab Mukherjee , Jaswant Singh, Arun Jaitley as well. Of course, I do not expect anyone of them to remember me. I also saw from close quarters Devi Gawda , R K Gujral , Narasimha Rao , Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh as Prime Ministers. I retired as Agriculture Secretary