Retired IAS officer Ratna Prabha joins BJP, says want to ‘work for the people’
Kalaburagi: Former top bureaucrat and IAS officer on Wednesday joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Having served as the Chief Secretary of Karnataka, she became the second retired Chief Secretary of the state to join the saffron party.
Dr. A Ravindra was the first Chief Secretary to join BJP, while Retd. Additional Chief Secretary of the state Lakshminarayana also joined BJP recently.
According to a tweet by ANI, Ratna said that she wanted to work for the people of the country and found that BJP was apt party to fulfill her desires. She also admitted that she was impressed with the way PM Modi was striving to develop the country in a unique manner.
Ratna Prabha was the third woman chief secretary of the state after Teresa Bhattacharya (2000) and Malathi Das (2006). She is an 1981 batch IAS officer and belong to Dalit background.
A few years ago, she also bagged the ‘Woman of the Year’ award from the American Biographical Institute Inc., U.S.
Retired IAS officer&former K'taka Chief Secy Rathna Prabha,Kalaburagi:I've decided to join BJP as PM has been striving to develop the country in a unique manner. I wanted to do service to the nation&I felt this was one party apt for me to fulfill my desires to work for the people pic.twitter.com/oZchQXOCrm
— ANI (@ANI) April 3, 2019
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Truck driver arrested with cannabis worth over Rs 80 lakh in UP
Bhadohi (UP) (PTI): A truck driver was arrested here on Tuesday with cannabis worth over Rs 80 lakh, police said.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Shubham Agrawal said that during vehicle checking on National Highway 19 in the Gopiganj police station area, a container truck was stopped near a roadside eatery for inspection.
During the search, police recovered several sacks containing 3 quintals and 78 kg of cannabis from the truck. The seized contraband is valued at around Rs 81 lakh, the officer said.
The truck driver, Son Pal, has been arrested and a case has been registered against him and four others under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Agrawal said.
During preliminary interrogation, Pal revealed that the cannabis was smuggled from Odisha by Salim and Chaman Khan, residents of Etah district. Half of the consignment was to be delivered to a person named Khalik in Bareilly, while the remaining half was for a person in Punjab, Agrawal said.
Pal further told police that he was promised Rs 1 lakh for safely transporting the consignment, the officer said.
