Amid Kolkata Police-CBI row, former IPS officer of West Bengal Bharati Ghosh joins BJP
Former West Midnapore district police chief Bharati Ghosh was once said to be close to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Bharati Ghosh, former IPS officer of West Bengal, joins BJP in presence of senior party leader Kailash Vijayvargiya in New Delhi on February 4, 2019 | Photo Credit: PTI
New Delhi: Former West Midnapore district police chief Bharati Ghosh, who was once said to be close to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Monday joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and BJP leaders Mukul Roy and Kailash Vijayvargiya.
Ghosh, who was transferred as Commandant of West Bengal Armed Police's 3rd Battalion on December 26, 2018, had resigned from the police service two days later.
Taking to Twitter, BJP's Kailash Vijaywargiya said, “The BJP family continues to grow in West Bengal. I welcome former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh to the party.”
Ghosh, the former IPS officer in West Bengal, was awarded a service medal on August 15, 2014.
Her husband, MAV Raju, was arrested on August 7, 2018, following an investigation into alleged extortion and illegal exchange of banned notes for gold at Daspur in West Midnapore district. Ghosh is also under the Criminal Investigation Department's scanner for criminal conspiracy.
Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee continued her sit-in protest in Kolkata over the CBI's attempt to question the Kolkata Police chief in connection with a ponzi scheme scam. The Trinamool Congress supremo had started her dharna at around 9 pm on Sunday.
"This is a Satyagraha and I'll continue till the country is saved," Banerjee told the reporters.