Kiran Bedi joins BJP; to contest Assembly polls in Delhi
Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2015

Former supercop Kiran Bedi, who last year declared support for Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate, would contest Delhi Assembly polls from BJP

 

Kiran Bedi, former officer from the Indian Police Service (IPS) on Thursday joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Welcoming her into the party, Amit Shah, president of BJP said, "Bedi's entry into BJP will strengthen the party in Delhi. She will contest Assembly polls in the state."
 
Bedi was the key member of India Against Corruption movement and was arrested hours before the proposed hunger strike by Anna Hazare in 2011. She later split from the group in November 2012.
 
Before the last year's general election, Bedi had declared support for Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate.
 
Bedi was the first woman officer in the IPS. She was the Director General at the Bureau of Police Research and Development before voluntarily retiring from the IPS in December 2007.
 
In 1994, Bedi was received the Ramon Magsaysay award for Government service.
 
Meanwhile, in a jolt to West Bengal chief minister Mamta Banerjee, one of her minister also joined BJP. Trinamool Congress' minister Manjul Krishna Thakur resigned from the Banerjee government and joined hands with BJP.
 
Comments
MG Warrier
1 decade ago
This is the kind of change we should welcome! If BJP can transform itself to accommodate Kiran Bedi's public views on governance, the day is not far off, when the kind of 'Government by consensus with country's interests in view' will become a reality.
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