The former adviser to the Governor of the then state of Jammu and Kashmir and senior IPS officer K Vijay Kumar has been elevated as one of the top security advisors for Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The official order that was issued by the Home Ministry on December 3rd, 2019 has said that being appointed as a senior security adviser for Amit Shah, Vijay Kumar will advise the ministry on the security related to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the states that have been affected by the Left Wing Extremism (LWE).

The order has further notified that he will be in the position for one year from the date of assuming his office. Vijay Kumar, the 1975-batch officer of Indian Police Service (IPS), has held very important and crucial roles on the national security grounds where he had previously served as the Director-General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and he headed the National Police Academy in Hyderabad as its Director. He was widely known through leading the special task force in Tamil Nadu that had killed sandalwood smuggler Veerappan in 2004.

67-year-old Vijay Kumar, after getting retired from his service and demitted his office of Director-General of CRPF in 2012, was appointed as a senior security adviser in the Ministry of Home Affairs led by the then Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Modi's first term of governance. He was then sent to Jammu and Kashmir at the time when the state was mapped under the President's rule in June 2018 where he was served as an adviser for the then Governors Narinder Nath Vohra and Satya Pal Malik.

During his tenure in Jammu and Kashmir as an adviser, he played a crucial and vital role in setting up and enhancing the security apparatus in the state at the high time when the state was brought under severe restrictions when Indian government revoked the Article 370 that granted and guaranteed special status to the state of Kashmir following which the state has been bifurcated into two new union territories that became active October 31st, 2019. Vijay Kumar's name was speculated for the post of Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory and now he has been inducted to the Ministry of Home Affairs where he will oversee and advise the ministry on the security in Jammu and Kashmir and the states affected by the Left Wing Extremism.