Mayankote Kelath Narayanan (lang-ml????????? ??????? ?????????) (born 1934) commonly referred to as M.K. Narayanan is the Governor of Indian state West Bengal and was the National Security Advisor (National Security Advisor (India)) (NSA) to the Prime Minister of India until January 2010. He was appointed to this post on January 25, 2005, three weeks after the former NSA, J N Dixit died on January 3, 2005. He offered to resign on 30 November 2008 over the attacks in Mumbai that killed nearly 200 people, but his resignation was not accepted by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He has been heavily criticized in leading up to the Mumbai terrorists attacks of his preoccupation with Sri Lanka and the LTTE, instead of Indias chief threat Kashmir insurgents and Pakistan.