Amid talks of contesting elections from Buxar parliamentary seat, Anand Mishra, an Indian Police Service officer of 2011 RR batch in Assam-Meghalaya cadre, has applied for voluntary retirement. He has requested the Assam government to accept his resignation with effect from January 16, 2024, as soon as Kharmas ends. He has submitted his resignation letter to the Chief Secretary of the Government of Assam. Furthermore, he is currently posted as SP Batao in Lakhimpur district of Assam.
There was a lot of discussion for action against the drug mafia
He is originally a resident of Padsaura village under Shahpur block of Bhojpur district of Bihar. Although he was brought up and educated in Kolkata. He is counted among the most intelligent police officers of Assam. During his posting in Nagaon district, he is widely talked about for his action against the drug mafia.
He has very good relations with many big leaders of BJP. In his application, he has said that he wants to focus on freedom and social concerns in his personal life.
His ancestral village is adjacent to Buxar district and used to be a part of Buxar parliamentary seat in the previous delimitation. For the last few months, this IPS officer had increased his activity in Buxar.
Participation in various events held in Buxar
Along with increasing his participation in all the events held in Buxar, he also started meeting people from all influential sections at the local level. Meanwhile, on the instructions of the court, the government made him the head of the Special Investigation Team formed to investigate the Manipur violence case.
It is believed that after taking on this new responsibility, it would have been difficult for him to continue his activities in Buxar parliamentary constituency as before.
Let us tell you that the Buxar Lok Sabha seat is considered Brahmin dominated. Out of the last 6 elections, Brahmin candidates of Bharatiya Janata Party have won from this seat. At present Ashwini Choubey of BJP is the MP from here, and he is a minister in the central government also.
Before this, Lal Muni Choubey of the same party has represented Buxar four times consecutively. After him, Jagdanand Singh of Rashtriya Janata Dal represented this seat for one term.
Many officers have already taken safe retirement to contest elections from Buxar Lok Sabha seat. These include the names of UP Singh, former Chief Justice of Kerala High Court, and Gupteshwar Pandey, former DGP of Bihar.
In these, UP Singh had to face defeat from BJP’s Lal Muni Choubey while contesting the elections on RJD ticket. Gupteshwar Pandey could not get the party ticket. However, he denies that he intended to take retirement and contest the elections. At present, he is doing satsang and storytelling.
