NEW DELHI: Former IAF chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria joined BJP on a day former Military chief and two-time Ghaziabad MP V Okay Singh opted out of the Lok Sabha contest.Expressing gratitude in the direction of the BJP management, Bhadauria stated his most fulfilling years of service within the IAF had been in the course of the tenure of the BJP-led govt. Having retired in 2021, he lauded the previous 8-10 years as a “golden period”, commending the initiatives undertaken by the Modi administration to boost self-reliance and modernise the armed forces. He highlighted that his new position introduced a possibility for him to contribute to the nation’s growth and progress.“I thank the party leadership for giving me this opportunity to contribute to nation-building once again. I served the IAF for more than four decades, but the best time of my service was the last eight years under the leadership of the BJP govt. The tough steps taken by this govt to empower and modernise our armed forces and make them self-reliant have not only given rise to a new capability in the forces but also given them a new confidence,” he stated.Bhadauria was IAF chief from Sept 2019 to Sept 2021. He received the coveted ‘Sword of Honour’ on the Nationwide Defence Academy, flew indigenous Tejas fighter prototypes as a younger check pilot and later led industrial negotiations for the Rs 59,000-crore deal for 36 French Rafale jets in Sept 2016 as IAF deputy chief, which emerged as a serious bone of competition between BJP and Congress within the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections in 2019.Bhadauria, together with former MP from Tirupati Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli from YSRCP, had been inducted into the celebration by BJP normal secretary Vinod Tawde and Union minister Anurag Thakur on the celebration headquarters in New Delhi.In keeping with BJP sources, Bhadauria is being thought of for an LS seat in Uttar Pradesh whereas Velagapalli has been named from the Tirupati seat.The event got here as V Okay Singh stated he was opting out of electoral politics. Later within the day, he was changed for the Ghaziabad LS seat by MLA Atul Garg.Singh, a third-generation officer of the Rajput Regiment who had topped each the commando course on the Infantry College in Mhow and the Rangers combat-leadership programme at Fort Benning in US as a subaltern, was Military chief from April 2010 to Could 2012. He was the primary serving army chief to controversially drag the govt. (UPA-2) to court docket over his date of beginning as a result of he believed he had been wronged by the system and victimised by earlier Military chiefs Generals J J Singh and Deepak Kapoor. There have been additionally studies of the UPA-2 govt being “spooked” by the unauthorised motion of two Military items in the direction of New Delhi in Jan 2012.

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