Bengaluru : As his resignation was accepted, Karnataka Senior IPS Officer, Additionsl DirectorGeneral of Police Bhaskar Rao has planned to start another ‘innings’ in politics. According to sources, Rao will join Aam Aadhmi Party (AAP) at 11am at Bengaluru on Monday (April 4) and address a news conference at 1pm.

Rao is said to be the AAP’s candidate for 2023 general election to Karnataka Assembly from Bengaluru South constituency.He was also dissatisfied over the way he was treated by the present state government and expressed interest in joining the Aam Aadmi Party.

Karnataka government, on Friday has accepted Rao’s resignation. Rao had handed in a voluntary retirement notice based on personal grounds to IAS officer P Ravi Kumar, also the Karnataka Chief Secretary, in September last year.

His announcement came on the ADGP’s Twitter, where he said, “Last trip home after curtains down of 32 years in IPS. I have extreme gratitude to my family, the people of Karnataka and all my colleagues, friends, elders & young people in my life and finally the Governments of Karnataka across parties, heading into choppy seas.”

Rao, an IPS officer from the 1990 batch, has served as the chief police commissioner of Bengaluru from 2019 to 2020, and was currently serving as the ADGP for Railways. Rao was previously ADGP in the Karnataka State Reserve Police as well as ADGP of the Internal security Division. Rao was awarded the “Police medal for meritorious service” on Indian Independence day in 2008.