Sudden exit of Navneet Sehgal, crisis manager of 3 UP CM’s, has surprised a many

The sudden exit of Navneet Kumar Sehgal, a retired 1988-batch IAS officer of UP cadre from the post of Chairperson of Prasar Bharati has surprised many. He is known as the crisis manager of Uttar Pradesh's three Chief Ministers- Mayawati,  Akhilesh Yadav and Yogi Adityanath. He is known as a versatile bureaucrat, who knows how to win a CM’s confidence. Sehgal served as Mayawati’s Secretary through her tenure from 2007 to 2012. Later, he was moved to the officers-on-waiting list when Akhilesh Yadav assumed the CM’s post in 2012. Following the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, the Akhilesh government brought him back as Principal Secretary (Information) to manage the crisis. Sehgal was again placed on the officers-on-waiting list when Adityanath came to power in 2017. But the CM leaned on him in the aftermath of the 2020 Hathras rape case. He took charge as Chairperson of Prasar Bharati  on 16 March, 2024 and not even completed two years in the role in the organisation.