Ahead of the 2015 Bihar assembly polls, three retired IPS officers, including former DGPs, joined the BJP here Wednesday.
It is a big boost to the saffron party in the state, as it is gearing up to take on the grand alliance of the ruling JD-U and its new ally the RJD of Lalu Prasad, and the Congress in the polls.
The three former officers - Ashish Ranjan Sinha, Ashok Gupta and Hira Prasad - joined the party in the presence of the BJP Bihar unit president Mangal Pandey and other senior leaders, including former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, here. Gupta and Prasad are former DGPs.
Sinha, who unsuccessfully contested the last Lok Sabha polls on a Congress ticket from Nalanda, had quit the RJD before the polls to contest.
Gupta and Prasad said that they had joined the BJP to strengthen the hands of Prime Minister Modi in Bihar.
According to BJP leaders here, all three former IPS officers are eyeing tickets in the assembly polls.
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