Former top cop Kiran Bedi on Thursday formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of party chief Amit Shah.
Shah welcomed Bedi into his party and announced that she would contest the Delhi Assembly polls.
"Kiran Bedi has joined the BJP. I welcome her. Her joining the party will strengthen the Delhi BJP. For fulfilling the aspirations of Delhi's voters, we get a colleague. Her positive contribution will help the BJP. She will contest the elections," he said.
Shah, however, downplayed media queries whether she would be the BJP's chief ministerial candidate in Delhi.
"Every BJP worker aspires to and is capable of becoming the chief minister. A decision in this regard would be taken by the BJP parliamentary board," he said.
Bedi, who was a prominent member of Team Anna, was formally inducted into the BJP in the presence of top leaders and ministers Arun Jaitley and Dr. Harshvardhan.
Bedi had earlier in the day tweeted that Delhi and Delhites do not deserve this kind of prolonged negativity.
"The capital needs integrity wisdom, experience, vision and implementation," she added on twitter.
There is speculation that the BJP could field her against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi assembly constituency in the elections next month.
