Two Punjab-cadre IAS officers resign to contest Lok Sabha polls.
Some of bureaucrats now a days are heard to join politics in order to contest elections. Now in Punjab also, there are two Punjab cadre IAS officers who are likely to join politics. Interestingly both of them are a female officers and they may join the Bharatiya Janata Party.
One of the woman officers is in relation with a senior Akali leader. She has not been given any important assignment for the last 7 years. Now, she mulls over resigning from the service to join politics. There are talks that this female IAS may join the BJP in order to contest LS elections.
Actually, political parties look for big faces but when they don’t find them, the parties wants to include people from bureaucrats or other political parties. Indian Foreign Services officer Taranjit Singh Sandhu has been fielded from Amritsar constituency, who earlier has served as Indian Ambassador to America.
The grapevine says that another IAS officer may resign and contest on an important seat in Malwa constituency. The situation on this is going to be clear in a day or two.
