Why kiran bedi is called crane bedi

The challenge was huge; not only to attend the day to day traffic arrangements of the cities, but also organize the traffic planning of the ninth Asian Games in Delhi in and Common Wealth Heads of Government Meet in Goa in In both the cities she and her team of officer's and men rose to the occasion and made her traffic units earn excellence. Kiran found participative ways to deliver the services. The participation doubled her strength of deployment. She was unsparing in enforcing discipline on the roads.

Due to presence of large number of cranes to remove wrongly parked vehicles - including that of the former Prime Minister , she was nicknamed ' Crane Bedi '. Among other things, she spoke about the legend of Crane Bedi. I gave a thought to it and decided to do what was right then," Bedi told a student who asked her about her daring decision to remove the car of none other than Indira Gandhi herself and what happened after that.

Bedi said, "Wahi hua jo sabeke saath hota hai" same thing happened which happens with all others. I was transferred to Goa the next day but that did not deter me from doing right things because of my strong foundation of knowledge and value system. The PM and her family were not even in India. The driver had gone to CP alone, perhaps for buying some accessories for the car.

But later she took credit for the whole incident, edging the inspector out of the narrative. Bedi not only continued in her post, she was also entrusted the responsibility of managing traffic during the Asian Games at Delhi November-December She was sent to Goa in March , a full seven more months after the incident at CP. In hindsight, it appears Bedi was actually rewarded for her performance in the Indira raj and handpicked for high-profile assignments like the Asian Games and the CHOGM summits.

And her image of Crane Bedi may be a result of the carte blanche given to her by the government during an important event like the Asian Games. This is not an isolated incident of myth-making. And she is fond of ascribing higher, exalted motives for her inability to complete her terms to explain her frequent transfers. Could the opposite be true about Kiran Bedi?

Instead of being penalized by politicians, was she a beneficiary of her proximity to the system?