This story is from March 11, 2022

Former IPS Asim Arun clicks in new role, wins Kannauj Sadar

Former IPS officer and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Asim Kumar Arun has won the assembly election from the Kannauj Sadar seat.Asim, who was trailing in the initial round of counting, later took the lead and then there was no looking back.
Former IPS Asim Arun clicks in new role, wins Kannauj Sadar
Kanpur: Former IPS officer and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Asim Kumar Arun has won the assembly election from the Kannauj Sadar seat.
Asim, who was trailing in the initial round of counting, later took the lead and then there was no looking back. He defeated SP candidate Anil Doharey by 6,683 votes. Arun secured 1,20,876 votes including 321 postal votes, which accounts for 44.53 per cent of votes polled in the constituency.
Doharey got 1,14,193 votes, while Congress Vineeta Devi secured only 1,782 votes.
Asim Kumar Arun, the first police commissioner of Kanpur Commissionerate, had applied for voluntary retirement as soon as the model code of conduct came into force on January 8.
After taking voluntary retirement from service, the former IPS had joined the BJP on January 16 in the presence of Union Minister Anurag Thakur and BJP UP president Swatantra Dev Singh. The state government had appointed IPS officer of 1994 batch Asim Kumar Arun as the first police commissioner (CP) of Kanpur Nagar in March 2021. He was born on 3 October 1970 in Badaun. He did his early education from St. Francis College, Lucknow and did his B.Sc from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. IPS Asim Kumar Arun tried his hand in civil services. The reason for this was that the father wanted to see him becoming an IPS officer like himself. Arun, ADG (Technical Services), was earlier posted as ADG, UP-112, Lucknow. Hailing from Kannauj, he had earlier worked with various police establishments.
He led the encounter of Saifullah, an ISIS-Khorasan inspired terrorist module in 2017 in Lucknow. Saifullah had carried out a train blast in Bhopal.
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