Senior Indian diplomat Gopal Bagley is to be appointed as the Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, sources told Ada Derana.
He is a former Spokesperson of India’s External Affairs Ministry and currently serves in the Prime Minister’s Office in New Delhi.
Meanwhile, the incumbent Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Taranjit Singh Sandhu is set to be appointed the next Indian envoy to the United States.
Taranjit Singh Sandhu is likely to succeed Harsh Vardhan Shringla as the next Indian Ambassador to the US, Indian media reports said.
Shringla will be taking charge as India’s new foreign secretary on 29 January.
Before taking over as the High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka on 24 January 2017, Sandhu was posted in Washington as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of India from July 2013 to January 2017.
A 1988-batch IFS officer, Sandhu also has the experience of working at the United Nations. He was posted as Joint Secretary (UN) from March 2009 to August 2011.
He was also at the Permanent Mission of India to United Nations, New York, from July 2005 to February 2009.
