Ex-Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao joins BJP ahead of Karnataka polls

Mangalore Today News Network

Bengaluru, Mar 01, 2023: Former Bengaluru Police Commissioner Bhaskar Rao, who is the also the Chairman of Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Manifesto Committee, joined the BJP ahead of the Assembly polls in Karnataka. The former IPS officer had met state’s Revenue Minister R Ashoka earlier and held discussions.

 

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, triggering speculations about him joining the saffron party soon.

 

Karnataka | Former commissioner of Bengaluru and AAP leader Bhaskar Rao joins BJP, in Bengaluru pic.twitter.com/o1TdIGfUve

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Rao, who resigned from the Indian Police Service, 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.

Bhaskar Rao, who was even seen as AAP’s probable candidate from the Basavanagudi Assembly constituency, is said to have decided to 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.

Courtesy: Zee News