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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Trump tells Fox News he's no longer sending Witkoff, Kushner to Pakistan for Iran talks
Islamabad (AP): President Donald Trump says he told top US envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran, telling Fox News that "they can call us anytime they want.”
In a brief phone interview Saturday, Trump told Fox News that he told US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner “you're not going to be making any more 18 hour flights to sit around talking about nothing.”
Trump also said of the US side “we have all the cards.”
His comments came after the White House said Friday that Witkoff and Kushner would be heading to Pakistan for another round of negotiations with Iran.
