<p>Five months after being declared the Bharatiya Janata Party’s chief ministerial candidate in Delhi, Kiran Bedi says she is not involved in party activities anymore.<br /><br />“I am not in party politics anymore,” she told Deccan Herald when asked about her current affiliation with the BJP.</p>.<p><br />“No...Never.....certain situations do not return,” she had said earlier in the day in reply to a supporter’s comment on Twitter. Her supporter had tweeted: “We common man with u agli baar,kiran bedi sarkar (a play on the BJP’s poll slogan – Ab ki baar Modi sarkaar).”<br />When Deccan Herald reached her for comment, the former IPS officer said she will not contest elections again and would rather invest herself in social service. <br /><br />“I am not in political service anymore. I was then responding to a situation. I don’t believe in making false promises for professional goals,” she said.<br /><br />Bedi lost the February 2014 elections from Krishna Nagar seat to Aam Aadmi Party’s S K Bagga, and the BJP got only three seats out of 70. Since then, she has been missing from action.<br /><br />She gave the BJP’s 35th foundation day on April 6 a miss. Later, she told a newspaper that she was unaware about the celebrations.<br /><br />On Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, she said, “We were fighting against a lobby or state power. It was a fight for delivering governance. But now it is a fight against politics that ignites, and not that douses fire,”<br /><br />She said Kejriwal is engaged in politics, which she defined as “dirty and destructive”.<br />On her current rapport with former colleague from India Against Corruption, Bedi insisted that it was him who parted ways. “He turned into a politician, I didn’t. It was not my intention to be in politics,” she said. </p>.<p><br />She alleged that the “Kejriwal’s reign” in Delhi after the AAP’s landslide victory lacked commitment for governance. <br /><br />“There is an army of one lakh government employees. He needs to work with them,” she said. <br /><br />On certificate row<br />On Jitender Singh Tomar’s fake certificate row, which led to his resignation as Law Minister on Tuesday, the former police officer said, “If there is a complaint, one should act against it.”<br /><br /> “I’m will always remain a cop. Uniform rises above everything. In my UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) application form I had written ‘Humanity’ in the column for religion,” she said. <br /><br />On whether she still conforms to the idea of BJP’s nationalist ideology, she said, “I have always believed in India First.” <br /><br /></p>
<p>Five months after being declared the Bharatiya Janata Party’s chief ministerial candidate in Delhi, Kiran Bedi says she is not involved in party activities anymore.<br /><br />“I am not in party politics anymore,” she told Deccan Herald when asked about her current affiliation with the BJP.</p>.<p><br />“No...Never.....certain situations do not return,” she had said earlier in the day in reply to a supporter’s comment on Twitter. Her supporter had tweeted: “We common man with u agli baar,kiran bedi sarkar (a play on the BJP’s poll slogan – Ab ki baar Modi sarkaar).”<br />When Deccan Herald reached her for comment, the former IPS officer said she will not contest elections again and would rather invest herself in social service. <br /><br />“I am not in political service anymore. I was then responding to a situation. I don’t believe in making false promises for professional goals,” she said.<br /><br />Bedi lost the February 2014 elections from Krishna Nagar seat to Aam Aadmi Party’s S K Bagga, and the BJP got only three seats out of 70. Since then, she has been missing from action.<br /><br />She gave the BJP’s 35th foundation day on April 6 a miss. Later, she told a newspaper that she was unaware about the celebrations.<br /><br />On Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, she said, “We were fighting against a lobby or state power. It was a fight for delivering governance. But now it is a fight against politics that ignites, and not that douses fire,”<br /><br />She said Kejriwal is engaged in politics, which she defined as “dirty and destructive”.<br />On her current rapport with former colleague from India Against Corruption, Bedi insisted that it was him who parted ways. “He turned into a politician, I didn’t. It was not my intention to be in politics,” she said. </p>.<p><br />She alleged that the “Kejriwal’s reign” in Delhi after the AAP’s landslide victory lacked commitment for governance. <br /><br />“There is an army of one lakh government employees. He needs to work with them,” she said. <br /><br />On certificate row<br />On Jitender Singh Tomar’s fake certificate row, which led to his resignation as Law Minister on Tuesday, the former police officer said, “If there is a complaint, one should act against it.”<br /><br /> “I’m will always remain a cop. Uniform rises above everything. In my UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) application form I had written ‘Humanity’ in the column for religion,” she said. <br /><br />On whether she still conforms to the idea of BJP’s nationalist ideology, she said, “I have always believed in India First.” <br /><br /></p>
