Close on the heels of Telangana IPS officer Dr R S Praveen Kumar, who took voluntary retirement from his service to take a plunge into active politics by joining the Bahujan Samaj Party, another retired IPS officer is planning to launch a movement to reform politics.
V K Singh, who retired from service in October last year, has decided to start a non-political platform to take up a socio-political movement in Telangana.
He called for a press conference in Hyderabad on Monday to announce his action plan.
Singh, who also opted for voluntary retirement from service months before his retirement last year, hopes to change bad politics with his socio-political movement, which he hopes would ultimately help in the development of the society.
The 1987-batch IPS officer, who played a major role in bringing in reforms in prison department as additional director general of jails for several years, raised a banner of revolt against the Telangana government after he was transferred as director of Telangana State police academy (TSPA).
Disgusted with the attitude of the TRS government, Singh wrote to the Centre seeking premature retirement.
He regretted that he was not promoted to the rank of Director General of Police (DGP), despite being eligible for it and said he did not “want to be a burden on the government”.
Subsequently, Singh was shifted from TSPA as well and was not given any posting till his retirement.
Interestingly, even before his retirement, the Punjab government appointed Singh as an advisor to the Punjab government.
There were speculations that he was also joining politics, but he denied the rumours.
Taking a dig at TRS president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s claim that he would convert the state into a “Bangaru Telangana,” Singh said no politician can make any state a golden one, but only people could do it.
Singh said then that he wanted to work among the people on the lines of Swami Vivekananda, Subhas Chandra Bose, Mahatma Gandhi and Anna Hazare.
“I want to work in the field of education too,” he said.
