Kiran Bedi To Be Sworn In As Puducherry Lieutenant Governor On May 29

Puducherry: BJP leader and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi, who has been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, will be sworn in at a function on May 29.

Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Island, Lieutenant General Ajay Singh was on additional charge of Puducherry since July 2014, an official release said.

Ms Bedi will be fourth woman Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.

Ms Bedi had joined the BJP in January last year, following which she was projected as the party's chief ministerial candidate in the Delhi Assembly elections. But her candidature was cited as one of the reasons why the BJP lost Delhi to Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party.