Bihar Elections 2020: Former DGP Gupteshwar Pandey joins JD(U)

New Delhi: Former Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey joins JD(U). Pandey quit as DGP after his request for voluntary retirement was approved on Tuesday by the Bihar government, which waived a three-month mandatory cooling-off period.

Bihar assembly elections will be held in three phases with polling to take place on October 28, and November 3 and 7, with the counting of votes to take place on November 10, according to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora.

Former Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey, who recently took VRS, joins JD(U) at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s residence in Patna. pic.twitter.com/jtVtl6eA1U

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“I came here to thank chief minister Nitish Kumar as he gave me full freedom to work. There was no talk related to polls and I have not yet decided on my joining the JD (U),” Pandey said on Saturday. But JD(U) sources have confirmed that the former DGP “would be joining the party at the earliest.”