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Ex-IPS Asim Arun Is First IPS to Be Inducted in UP Cabinet

Arun is the second Dalit officer of the elite IPS cadre who was given prominence by the Bharatiya Janata Party and made a minister.
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1994 batch IPS Officer and former commissioner of police of Kanpur Nagar, Asim Arun, made a tryst with history by becoming the first direct Indian Police Services officer to find a place in the Council of Ministers of Uttar Pradesh. Arun was sworn in as a Minister of State with independent charge in the Yogi Adityanath Government’s council of Ministers which assumed charge for a second consecutive term in Lucknow on Friday.

Arun is the second Dalit (Jatav) officer of the elite IPS cadre who was given prominence by the Bharatiya Janata Party and made a minister.

Earlier, Arun’s mentor and former UP DGP Brij Lal, also a Dalit officer, had joined the BJP soon after his retirement and was made a Rajya Sabha member by the saffron outfit. In 1996 too, a police sub-inspector, Satya Pal Singh Baghel, had quit his job to join politics and went on to become a four-time MP. He first joined the Samajwadi Party, then switched over to Bahujan Samaj Party before finally shifting to the BJP and becoming a Union Minister in the Narendra Modi Government.

He also contested the recent assembly election against SP chief Akhilesh Yadav from Karhal seat (Mainpuri) but got a drubbing.

Like Arun, another 1980 batch IPS officer and former Mumbai Police Commissioner, Satya Pal Singh, had opted for voluntary retirement and is a two-time MP from Baghpat and finds a place in the Modi council of ministers at the Centre.


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