secretary of the nagpur communist party in 194243 and the first person he recruited in nagpur was an 18yearold ab bardhan who then became the general secretary of the communist party in 1996 ramesh saidhaksar was the reason for the marxist slant in some of indira gandhis decisions ramesh said nationalisation of coal general insurance and oil refineries was orchestrated by him apart from the famous nationalisation of banksby todays standards he was anything but market friendly he was a public sector wallah and you can say that he kept india economically stagnant but he was the guy who got ongc to start drilling in bombay high he helped ipcl bhel sail to start ramesh saidhaksar ramesh said played an important role in the creation of the department of agricultural research where ms swaminathan was the first secretary he was the person who made manmohan singh the chief adviser in the ministry of finance he played a big role in building indias scientific temper strengthening the public sectorall the magnificent achievements of indira gandhi had the imprint of haksar one of the most decisive contributions was to get a reluctant satish dhawan to be the chairman of the indian space research organisation in the january of 1972 after vikram sarabhais death dhawan was on a sabbatical in cal tech in the us and it was haksar who got indira gandhi to write to dhawan and he agreed she worked very closely with him on the space programme he added