Rajat Sethi, who was the chief architect of the BJP’s win in Assam Assembly polls, has been appointed adviser to Chief Minister Raghubar Das.
An official notification issued by the Cabinet Secretariat Department on Thursday said that the appointment is co-terminus and purely temporary in nature which can be ended without any prior information.
Rajat Sethi hails from Kanpur and studied at RSS-run Shishu Mandir school.
He did his B Tech from IIT-Kharagpur and went on to do a dual degree from MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Kennedy School.
Some media reports also claimed that the public policy expert was part of election campaign of US President hopeful Hilary Clinton.
Officials in the Chief Minister Office said that he would advise the Government on various development issues besides, making those popular and visible among people and various media platforms.