Former IAS officer P R Meena and Dr Narsi Kirand and former IPS officer Ramdev Singh have joined the BJP in Rajasthan.
A 2008-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from Chhattisgarh, Neelkanth Tekam, who has applied for VRS is likely to contest the Vidhan Sabha election from Keshkal in Bastar district of Rajasthan this year-end.
As many as 20 IPS officers of various cadres and batches are retiring in May 2023. They are K R M Kishore Kumar, L K V Ranga Rao of Andhra Pradesh; Mukesh Kumar Meena and V J Chandran of AGMUT cadre; Hemonlang Nongpluh and O Pasi of Assam-Meghalaya cadre; Arun Kumar Sinha, B Sandhya, S Ananthakrishnan of Kerala; Tilak Singh of Madhya Pradesh; A Ponnuchamy Muthusamy of Rajasthan; C Easwaramoorthy, G Sampathkumar, R Chinnasammy, S Prabhakaran of Tamil Nadu; Raj Kumar Viswakarma, Chandra Prakash-1, Ram Lal Verma, Manik Chandra of Uttar Pradesh cadre and Manoj Malaviya of West Bengal cadre.
