Kiran Bedi appointed Puducherry Lt. Governor

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New Delhi, May 22: BJP chief and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi was on Sunday appointed Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique right here mentioned.

Kiran Bedi“The President of India is happy to nominate Kiran Bedi to be the Lt. Governor of Puducherry with impact from the date she assumes cost,” it mentioned.

The Congress-DMK alliance returned to power within the union territory after the May 16 elections to the 30-member meeting.

The primary girl to hitch the elite Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972, Bedi held key positions in her profession, together with Inspector Normal (Prisons) at Delhi’s high-security Tihar jail.

Recognized for her administrative expertise and integrity, her work in considered one of Asia’s largest jails received her the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1994.

She was credited for introducing yoga, meditation, literacy drive, pc abilities, suggestions containers for the inmates throughout her stint at Tihar and is commonly mentioned to have efficiently remodeled the jail right into a “reformatory”.

Bedi has additionally courted controversies throughout her service.

Whereas working as deputy commissioner of police (visitors) in 1982 throughout the ninth Asian Games, she was nicknamed ‘Crane Bedi’ for intensive use of cranes to tow away wrongly parked vehicles.

Bedi additionally had a stint as director basic of police in Mizoram in addition to the Chandigarh IGP for a really temporary interval.

In 2003, Bedi turned the primary Indian lady to be appointed police advisor to the United Nations secretary basic, within the Division of Peace Keeping Operations, until 2005.

Bedi resigned from police service in November 2007 citing private causes.

She later partnered with social activists Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal of their motion in opposition to corruption and fashioned India Towards Corruption for a robust Lokpal in 2011.

She, nevertheless, later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party forward of the February 2015 Delhi meeting polls and was named the social gathering’s chief ministerial nominee.

After becoming a member of the BJP in January 2015, Bedi had mentioned: “Mujhe kaam karma aata hai. Kaam karana bhi aata hai (I understand how to work; I understand how to get work finished too)”.

Nonetheless, the BJP was nearly worn out within the Delhi meeting elections, successful solely three seats within the 70-member meeting. She herself misplaced within the Krishna Nagar constituency in east Delhi.

Photo Courtesy: IndianExpress

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