Lucknow, Aug. 1 -- Known as a trusted officer of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, newly appointed Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Shashi Prakash Goyal has navigated the turbulence of political regimes of different shades in Uttar Pradesh with ease during the course of his 36-year-long career as a bureaucrat.

Having led the CM's secretariat for over eight years, the 1989-batch IAS officer has been the 'eyes and ears' of the chief minister while keeping a close watch on the state bureaucracy and discharging his duties without seeking public attention.

From 1996 to 2002, with the BJP in power in Uttar Pradesh for most of this period, Goyal was posted as the district magistrate of Deoria, Mathura and Etawah.

The fact that he remained in the g...