Vikram Misri, Secretary of Ministry of External Affairs, has reportedly locked his X (formerly Twitter).
"Mr Vikram Misri is a decent and an Honest Hard working Diplomat working tirelessly for our Nation. Our Civil Servants work under the Executive this must be remembered & they shouldn’t be blamed for the decisions taken by The Executive /or any Political leadership running Watan E Aziz," said Asaduddin Owaisi, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen's President, while reacting to the development.
"Last week, Modi bhakts launched a vicious character assassination campaign against Ms Himanshi Narwal, the widow of a soldier and officer, simply because she appealed for "no hate, no violence". Now, they're targeting Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, as though he unilaterally decided on the ceasefire, not Modi, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh or Jaishankar. His family is being subjected to vile abuse, forcing @VikramMisri to protect his tweets. These Modi bhakts can’t bring themselves to hold their ‘God’ accountable, so they lash out at everyone else instead. Modi is now grappling with the Frankenstein's monster he created in the form of the IT Cell, and it will turn on him very soon," said Congress Kerala in a post.
Who is Vikram Misri?
Vikram Misri assumed charge as Foreign Secretary on July 15, 2024. A career diplomat from the 1989 batch of the Indian Foreign Service, Ambassador Misri has served in various capacities at the Ministry of External Affairs, in the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi and in various Indian Missions abroad in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.
His assignments in New Delhi have included work on the Pakistan desk of the Ministry of External Affairs and stints on the staffs of two Foreign Ministers (Mr. I.K. Gujral and Mr. Pranab Mukherjee).
Apart from serving as the Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, he has also served as Private Secretary to three Prime Ministers of India (Shri I.K. Gujral; Dr. Manmohan Singh and Shri Narendra Modi).
Ambassador Misri has served abroad in Brussels, Tunis, Islamabad and Washington D.C. He was Deputy High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka and Consul General of India in Munich.
Ambassador Misri was born in Srinagar and had his early education there (Burn Hall School and DAV School) as well as in Udhampur (Carmel Convent School) in Jammu and Kashmir. He finished his schooling from the Scindia School in Gwalior and went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree with Honours in History from the Hindu College, University of Delhi and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Before joining the government, he worked for three years in the private sector in the fields of advertising (Lintas India - Bombay and Contract Advertising - Delhi) and advertising film-making. Ambassador Misri is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute USA´s India Leadership Initiative (now the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship). He speaks fluent Hindi, English and Kashmiri and has a working knowledge of French.
"Mr Vikram Misri is a decent and an Honest Hard working Diplomat working tirelessly for our Nation. Our Civil Servants work under the Executive this must be remembered & they shouldn’t be blamed for the decisions taken by The Executive /or any Political leadership running Watan E Aziz," said Asaduddin Owaisi, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen's President, while reacting to the development.
"Last week, Modi bhakts launched a vicious character assassination campaign against Ms Himanshi Narwal, the widow of a soldier and officer, simply because she appealed for "no hate, no violence". Now, they're targeting Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, as though he unilaterally decided on the ceasefire, not Modi, Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh or Jaishankar. His family is being subjected to vile abuse, forcing @VikramMisri to protect his tweets. These Modi bhakts can’t bring themselves to hold their ‘God’ accountable, so they lash out at everyone else instead. Modi is now grappling with the Frankenstein's monster he created in the form of the IT Cell, and it will turn on him very soon," said Congress Kerala in a post.
Who is Vikram Misri?
Vikram Misri assumed charge as Foreign Secretary on July 15, 2024. A career diplomat from the 1989 batch of the Indian Foreign Service, Ambassador Misri has served in various capacities at the Ministry of External Affairs, in the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi and in various Indian Missions abroad in Europe, Africa, Asia and North America.
His assignments in New Delhi have included work on the Pakistan desk of the Ministry of External Affairs and stints on the staffs of two Foreign Ministers (Mr. I.K. Gujral and Mr. Pranab Mukherjee).
Apart from serving as the Joint Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, he has also served as Private Secretary to three Prime Ministers of India (Shri I.K. Gujral; Dr. Manmohan Singh and Shri Narendra Modi).
Ambassador Misri has served abroad in Brussels, Tunis, Islamabad and Washington D.C. He was Deputy High Commissioner of India in Sri Lanka and Consul General of India in Munich.
Ambassador Misri was born in Srinagar and had his early education there (Burn Hall School and DAV School) as well as in Udhampur (Carmel Convent School) in Jammu and Kashmir. He finished his schooling from the Scindia School in Gwalior and went on to earn a Bachelor’s degree with Honours in History from the Hindu College, University of Delhi and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Before joining the government, he worked for three years in the private sector in the fields of advertising (Lintas India - Bombay and Contract Advertising - Delhi) and advertising film-making. Ambassador Misri is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute USA´s India Leadership Initiative (now the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship). He speaks fluent Hindi, English and Kashmiri and has a working knowledge of French.
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