Khaki to khadi: Arup Patnaik to Bhaskar Rao, police commissioners who tried their luck in polls

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New Delhi: Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik will try his luck for the second time in the Lok Sabha election from Puri in Odisha on a Biju Janata Dal (BJD) ticket..

A retired IPS officer of the 1979 batch, the BJD candidate had contested the last Lok Sabha election from Bhubaneshwar in which he lost to BJPs Aparajita Sarangi, a former IAS officer, by a margin of about 21,000 votes...

Satya Pal Singh: Like Patnaik, Satya Pal Singh, a 1980 batch Maharashtra cadre IPS officer, is a former Mumbai Police Commissioner, and a sitting Member of Parliament from Baghpat in western Uttar Pradesh since 2014..

Nikhil Kumar: An officer of the 1963 batch of the AGMUT cadre, and a former Delhi Police Commissioner, Kumar is a rare IPS officer-turned MP-turned governor..

Humayun Kabir: Months after he made headlines in 2021 for arresting BJP workers who allegedly raised the slogan of goli maaro (shoot them) at Suvendu Adhikaris rally, Kabir was rewarded by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) with a ticket from Debra assembly constituency in West Bengal..

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