Former Bengaluru police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao to join BJP on Wednesday, quitting AAP
BENGALURU:
Former Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao, who is the Chairman of Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Manifesto Committee, is joining the BJP ahead of the Assembly polls in Karnataka.
The former IPS officer today met state’s Revenue Minister R Ashoka and held discussions.
ಇದನ್ನು ಸಹ ಓದಿ: ಮಾಜಿ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಆಯುಕ್ತ ಭಾಸ್ಕರ್ ರಾವ್ ಬುಧವಾರ ಬಿಜೆಪಿಗೆ ಸೇರ್ಪಡೆ
He is also said to have met Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai, a former IPS officer and party’s co-in-charge for Karnataka polls, and Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, sources said, adding that he will be joining the party soon.
Rao, who resigned from the IPS, had joined AAP in April last year, and was recently appointed as the party’s Manifesto Committee’s Chairman, and had emerged as one of the prominent faces of the party in the state.
Rao, who was even seen as AAP’s probable candidate from the Basavanagudi Assembly constituency, is said to have quit the party due to his reported not so good equations with certain leaders especially in the state unit and its recent organisational changes, sources added.
With PTI inputs
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