Raghaw Sharan Pandey

R. S. Pandey is a politician and a former Indian Administrative Service officer (batch of 1972 and retired in 2010). He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from December 2013 - October 2019, and a special invitee member of the BJP National Executive since March 2015. He has been a senior bureaucrat having held key positions across central and Nagaland state government administration.

R. S. Pandey has been Secretary, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Secretary, Ministry of Steel, and Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas in Government of India. He also held the position of Chief Secretary, Government of Nagaland. After retirement on 31.1.2010, he was appointed, in February 2010 by the Government of India as the Interlocutor and Government of India Representative for Naga Peace Talks (2010-2013).

He is also the founder, chairperson and managing trustee of Valmiki Vikas Manch (VVM), an NGO which he founded in 2015 with the purpose of furthering socio-economic development particularly in the Champaran region in "Bihar". Provided by Wikipedia