Former Raipur collector O P Choudhary (IAS:2005:CH) joined the BJP at the national headquarter of party in New delhi, days after resigning from the Indian Administrative Service.
After Joining the BJP former collector tweeted a photo of him with BJP president Amit Shah and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh.
Talking to PTI, the former bureaucrat said he served the people of Chhattisgarh for 13 long years and did all to help them.
“I am very satisfied with my tenure in the IAS. But bureaucracy has its own limitations. I want to work more for my people and my soil that is why I decided to leave the service,” Mr Choudhary, who hails from Chhattisgarh, said.
Mr Choudhary is likely to contest the upcoming Assembly polls from the Kharsiya seat, a Congress bastion in Raigarh district, sources said.Umesh Patel is the incumbent Congress MLA from Kharsiya.
Elections for the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly is due this year-end.
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