Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair joins BJP

CHANDIGARH: Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair who was blacklisted by the UPA government in 2012 over a suspect contract signed between ISROs commercial arm Antrix Corporation and Devas Multimedia Private Limited in 2005 joined the Bharatiya Janata Party with five other people on Saturday night

Updated At : 09:28 PM Oct 28, 2018 IST

Photo Credit: G Madhavan Nair/ Twitter.

Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, October 28

Former Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G Madhavan Nair joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday night.

Nair was among the five prominent people inducted into the party’s Kerala unit. His joining came during BJP chief Amit Shah’s visit to the state.

Nair, who was blacklisted by the UPA government in 2012 over a suspect contract signed between ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation and Devas Multimedia Private Limited in 2005—when Nair was the space organisation’s chairman—has said before that he had plans to join the BJP. He has repeatedly denying any wrongdoing in the Devas deal.