Posters of BJP candidate from Sasthamangalam ward, R. Sreelekha, seen modified by including ‘Rtd’ with IPS at a residential space of Sasthamangalam in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday. , Picture Credit score: NIRMAL HARINDRAN
The Bharatiya Janata Celebration’s (BJP) staff within the Sasthamangalam ward of the Thiruvananthapuram Company have been saddled with an unenviable process on Wednesday morning. Following objections raised by Aam Aadmi Celebration candidate TS Rashmi, the get together needed to take away the ‘IPS’ tag from the posters and marketing campaign supplies of their candidate R. Sreelekha, former Director Common of Police (DGP).
In response to officers within the district administration, a criticism concerning the usage of the honorific was acquired on the workplace, though an order concerning that is but to be issued. On Wednesday, in among the marketing campaign posters within the ward, the IPS half appeared blackened, whereas in some others, it was seen as ‘IPS (Retired).’
“It was a call taken by us. I hadn’t seen the point out of ‘IPS’ within the posters till at the moment. It appears the AAP candidate had raised the difficulty with among the BJP staff too. So, I assumed it could be higher so as to add ‘retired’ to the poster,” Ms. Sreelekha advised The Hindu,
Ms. Sreelekha has additionally been caught in one other controversy concerning some remarks she made in a video in her YouTube channel in July 2022. Following studies that the Ernakulam Periods Court docket will pronounce its judgment within the actor rape case, during which actor Dileep is an accused, on December 8, 2025, the remarks she made questioning the integrity of the prosecution’s cost towards Mr. Dileep is once more within the highlight.
Although Ms. Sreelekha was not concerned within the investigation of the case, she was DGP, Prisons, when Mr. Dileep was in judicial custody for practically 90 days and had admitted that she had met him in jail. The retired officer had claimed that the purported letter written by an accused was probably fabricated as an afterthought to entice Mr. Dileep.
Ms. Sreelekha had joined the BJP in October 2024, some years after her retirement from service.
Revealed – November 27, 2025 09:27 am IST