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On the recommendation of Union cabinet, the President of India Paranab Mukherjee has appointed Ms. Kiran Bedi as the Lt. Governor of Puducherry with effect from the date she assumes charges of her office.
“The President of India has been pleased to appoint Ms. Kiran Bedi, to be the Lt. Governor of Puducherry with effect from the date she assumes charges of her office” a press communique from Rashtrapati Bhavan said.
Kiran Bedi is a retired Indian Police Service officer, social activist and politician. She is the first woman to join the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development.
Bedi was BJP’s chief ministerial candidate in the last Delhi assembly elections, which the party lost to Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP.
Kiran Bedi was the first woman officer in the Indian Police Service when she joined in 1972. She has held key positions including Inspector General (Prisons) at Delhi’s high-security Tihar Jail. Her work in one of Asia’s largest jails led to her winning the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service.
After retirement, she partnered Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal in their movement against corruption and for a strong Lokpal but later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the February 2015 Delhi assembly polls.
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