Ex-IPS officer Anand Mishra, former minister Nagmani join BJP

PATNA: Former IPS officer Anand Mishra, along with former ministers Nagmani Kushwaha and his wife Suchitra Sinha joined the BJP in the presence of the party's state president Dilip Jaiswal and deputy CMs Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha on Tuesday. Among others who also joined the BJP were national president of Bhumihar Brahmin Ekta Manch Foundation, Ashutosh Kumar, who had recently been in the news for his controversial statements against a woman member of the RJD.Mishra (36), who had become an IPS officer at the age of 22, was known as an encounter specialist for his operations against Maoists in Assam before taking voluntary retirement and unsuccessfully contesting the last Lok Sabha election as an independent candidate from Buxar. He later joined the Jan Suraaj of Prashant Kishor and was made its youth wing chief.Nagmani is the son of late Jagdev Prasad, a revolutionary leader of the backward classes in Bihar. There is hardly any mainstream political party, be it RJD, JD(U) or late Ram Vilas Paswan's LJP, which Nagmani has not been a part of. He was also a central minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee govt. "People accuse me of party hopping. But now I have to live and die for the BJP. I will do my best to work on the instructions of the BJP high command. I will try my best to ensure that the NDA gets 90% votes in the Magadh and Shahabad region. After Samrat Choudhary and Upendra Kushwaha, when Nagmani has joined the NDA, the opposition will now have to crave for every vote," he said.Mishra said he has joined the BJP to promote its ideology and not for a ticket to contest election."I take an oath that as long as I live, I will work for this party and Bihar ... I will strengthen the BJP. I had left the IPS for the BJP which has impressed me since childhood. Bihar will be strong only if BJP is strong," said the former IPS officer, who has an impressive following on Instagram.