Former Karnataka Chief Secretary K. Ratna Prabha joined Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) at a public rally in Kalaburagi on Wednesday. At a presser, she said “I had decided to serve the people after my
retirement and politics is a good way for it. I am happy to join the party in
the Hyderabad Karnataka region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doing good
work. He is working round the clock for people. The successful Swachh Bharat
Abhiyan has benefited the women.†She added that she had not demanded any
position in the party. BJP State unit president B.S. Yeddyurappa welcomed her to the party in
the presence of state leaders Malikayya Guttedar, Baburao Chinchanasur,
Doddappagouda Patil Naribol, B.G. Patil, N. Ravikumar, Dattatreya Patil Revoor,
Basavaraj Mattimud, Ambaraya Ashtagi, and other party leaders. The 1981 batch IAS officer had retired from the service in March 2018.
She had served as Regional Commissioner (Gulbarga Division) between 2011 and
2012. She was known for launching the literacy campaign in a big way as a pilot
project in Raichur when she was Deputy Commissioner there in 1991. Earlier, she
had served as Assistant Commissioner in Bidar. She hails from a Dalit family in
Andhra Pradesh.
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Former K’taka CS Ratna joins BJP
By IndianMandarins - 2019-04-04 22:31:48
Former Karnataka Chief Secretary K. Ratna Prabha joined Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) at a public rally in Kalaburagi on Wednesday.
At a presser, she said “I had decided to serve the people after my retirement and politics is a good way for it. I am happy to join the party in the Hyderabad Karnataka region. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doing good work. He is working round the clock for people. The successful Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has benefited the women.†She added that she had not demanded any position in the party.
BJP State unit president B.S. Yeddyurappa welcomed her to the party in the presence of state leaders Malikayya Guttedar, Baburao Chinchanasur, Doddappagouda Patil Naribol, B.G. Patil, N. Ravikumar, Dattatreya Patil Revoor, Basavaraj Mattimud, Ambaraya Ashtagi, and other party leaders.
The 1981 batch IAS officer had retired from the service in March 2018. She had served as Regional Commissioner (Gulbarga Division) between 2011 and 2012. She was known for launching the literacy campaign in a big way as a pilot project in Raichur when she was Deputy Commissioner there in 1991. Earlier, she had served as Assistant Commissioner in Bidar. She hails from a Dalit family in Andhra Pradesh.
